Abstract PURPOSE: Many medications that were marketed prior to 1962 but lack Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approval are prescribed in the United States. Usage patterns of these “unapproved medications” are poorly elucidated, which is concerning due to potential lack of data on safety and efficacy. The purpose of this project was to characterize purchases […]
Abstract OBJECTIVES: To understand the potential impact of exposure misclassification on water fluoridation studies in England, this paper aims to describe the long-term variation in water fluoride concentrations in both artificially and naturally fluoridated water supplies. METHODS: Water fluoridation dose monitoring data were requested from all five English public water suppliers who artificially fluoridate their […]
Abstract OBJECTIVE: To understand the toxicological indexes of rural drinking water quality in 2016-2018 in Shaanxi Province. METHODS: From 2016 to 2018, rural drinking water monitoring points were set up in all( 102) agriculture-related counties( districts) in Shaanxi Province. Each township selected 1-2 rural water supply systems for terminal water supply and terminal water and […]
Scientists have rediscovered a compound developed by German researchers during World War II. It appears to be more effective and perhaps safer than DDT. [The compound, difluoro-diphenyl-trichloro-ethane is the same molecule as DDT, except with fluorine atoms replacing two of the chlorines.] What if, after the Allies won World War II, world health officials had […]
NBC10 Philadelphia/CBS.GOV A video still from NBC10 of the V-1 explosion that occurred at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery on June 21. The explosion that destroyed the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery in June was so powerful it launched a 38,000-pound piece of equipment across the width of the Schuylkill River, according to a report released […]
The thick black smoke over her South Philadelphia neighborhood was enough to make Carol White feel as if she couldn’t breathe. She never had asthma or respiratory issues, but the June 21 explosion at the refinery near her home sent her to the emergency room. White, 60, said she still has chest pains, headaches and […]
Philadelphia dodged several potential catastrophes during a dramatic June 21 refinery blast, which released about 5,239 pounds of a deadly chemical and launched pieces of shrapnel as large as a truck hurtling across the 1,300-acre refinery complex, according to federal findings released Wednesday. The disaster at the Philadelphia Energy Solutions complex began with the early […]
Abstract BACKGROUND: The concentration of fluoride in ground drinking water greater than the world health organization standard value imposes a serious health, social and economic problem in developing countries. In the Ethiopian Rift Valley where deep wells are the major source of drinking water, high fluoride level is expected. Though many epidemiological studies on fluoride […]
COURT: N.D. Ill. TRACK DOCKET: No. 19-cv-6734 (Bloomberg Law Subscription) JUDGE: Elaine E. Bucklo (Bloomberg Law Subscription) COMPANY INFO: Delta Dental Plans Association (Bloomberg Law Subscription) Delta Dental Plans Association, the country’s top dental insurer, was hit with a wave of antitrust lawsuits in the Northern District of Illinois accusing it of conspiring with independent […]
Excerpt … Due to the lack of rainwater, lakes and wetlands, most of India’s population is heavily dependent on groundwater: around 25 percent of the groundwater extracted around the world is removed in India. Much of this is done illegally, which only adds to supply problems. In major cities like Bangalore and New Delhi, so-called […]
