Support for a statewide water fluoridation mandate appears to be weakening on Beacon Hill, where the measure’s proponents say they want to study reports linking fluoride to health problems before taking a vote. Sen. Pamela Resor, D-Acton, filed legislation to mandate fluoridation but now says research linking fluoridated water to bone cancer and other problems […]
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Fluoride leak shuts the taps
Dec 11, 2005 — Officials are investigating a leak at a Pennsylvania-American Water Co. treatment plant that sent an estimated 600 gallons of fluoride into the system on Saturday, prompting a public warning for customers not to drink the water. The leak raised the fluoride levels in the area from one part per million to […]
Are your teeth toxic?
A professional musician from Arlington Heights suffers from mysterious rashes and lip blisters. A dental hygienist in Hoffman Estates battles migraines. And a social worker in Prospect Heights is diagnosed with multiple sclerosis. All three tried treating their ailments using a controversial method: by having dentists remove and replace their so-called “silver” amalgam tooth fillings, […]
Fluoride measure backers consider their next move
The two major contributors to the failed ballot measure to fluoridate Bellingham’s water disagree on whether it’s worthwhile to take the issue to voters in the wake of last month’s election result. “I think we’ll not be pursuing initiatives for the foreseeable future,” said David Hemion, assistant executive director of the Washington State Dental Association, […]
ACSH’s Stier on NPR
Excerpt: ACSH associate director Jeff Stier appears on NPR’s Talk of the Nation show to discuss health rumors, Dec. 7, 2005 at 3:20pm Eastern — with the audio available online thereafter. Below is an excerpt from the show transcript:… NEIL CONAN (HOST): Here’s an e-mail we got from Jackson in Basalt, Colorado. `Who started the […]
Mohawks seek deer jaws to help with fluoride monitoring
HOGANSBURG – The St. Regis Mohawk Tribe’s environmental division is trying to collect 75 lower jaws from deer killed by hunters on the reservation. They need the jaws to monitor the amount of fluoride in deer and to see if it has reached levels that forced the slaughtering of cattle on the reservation in the […]
Debate In MA Over Increasing Water Fluoridation
A proposal on Beacon Hill would vastly expand the fluoridation of drinking water across Massachusetts. This effort comes at a time when some people are increasingly concerned about fluoridating any water at all. Tony Vallentine is one of those people. His son Seth died in 1986 when he was just 17 years-old from a rare […]
Supreme Court won’t hear Escondido fluoride lawsuit
NORTH COUNTY —- The city of Escondido will not have to change the way it adds fluoride to the water supply, according to a state Supreme Court decision Wednesday. The state’s highest court declined to review a 4-year-old lawsuit in which a group of Escondido residents alleged that the way the city fluoridates the water […]
It’s official: Bellingham voters reject fluoridation
Whatcom County certified the results of its first vote-by-mail general election Tuesday afternoon, ending a count slowed by ink bleeding through ballots and write-in votes. One extremely close county race will be heading to a hand recount next week. Though it was an off-year election, an effort to add fluoride to Bellingham’s drinking water, a […]
Editorial: Some second thoughts on fluoridation
It is one of the cardinal principles of pharmacology: “The poison is in the dose.” Thus, iodine is so important to health that tiny amounts are added to table salt, while a concentrated dose can kill you. The principle can also be applied to a topic that has stirred controversy for 60 years: the fluoridation […]