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What do shark teeth have to do with Indiana’s groundwater? Researcher digs for answers
Shark teeth buried in the sands of Florida’s warm sunny beaches and new lab equipment at Indiana University are helping a Hoosier geologist dig into research that could explain dangerously high fluoride levels in some Indiana groundwater. Tracy Branam, a research scientist at the Indiana Geological and Water Survey, began analyzing groundwater in southern Indiana […]
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Town board votes fluoride out of Gosport’s water
Joanna Thompson’s $59.18 Gosport Municipal Utilities water bill for March included a notification that the town has stopped adding fluoride to the water. (Laura Lane / Hoosier Times) Spencer Evening World GOSPORT — Joanna Thompson was surprised by the message typed on her $59.18 Gosport Municipal Utilities water bill for March. ‘Town has stopped adding […]
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Angola: Drinking water doesn’t come from lakes
ANGOLA — Despite having more than 100 lakes in Steuben County, Angola Water Superintendent Tom Selman says no, the drinking water for the city does not come from any of the lakes. That is one of the many questions Selman answered during a mini-talk held Monday at Caleo Café, sponsored by the Angola Neighborhood Watch. […]
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Syracuse, Indiana, discontinues fluoridation
DEPARTMENT REPORT [Mike Noe, town manager] received the council’s approval to solicit bids for a new water main on Medusa Street. He wanted the bids to go out now so the work can be done before Memorial Day. Noe also got the council’s OK to discontinue fluoride treatments. Noe said the Indiana Department of Environmental […]
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New exhibit explores Bloomington’s connection to Crest toothpaste
Joseph C. Muhler presents toothpaste and toothbrushes to two of the 12,000 young volunteers who took part in tests of a stannous fluoride toothpaste. The Monroe County History Center opened a new exhibit May 21 highlighting Crest toothpaste, which Muhler and two other IU scientists formulated. IU Archives Buy Photos Crest began selling a new […]
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Researcher wins award to to study urinary fluoride in pregnant women from Indiana University
Excerpt: BLOOMINGTON, Ind. — Indiana University has awarded six recipients with IU President’s International Research Awards, President Michael A. McRobbie has announced. The projects — in areas such as global maternal health, refugee arrival infrastructure and moisture recycling — aim to make a difference in communities around the world and here at home, furthering high-impact […]
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‘Look ma, no cavities!’
FORT WAYNE, IND. It was the butt of many jokes in the 1950’s and ’60’s when Crest toothpaste rolled out its ‘look mom, no cavities’ commercials, advertising what was actually one of the 20th Century’s greatest leaps forward in public health; the discovery that adding fluoride to toothpaste virtually eliminated cavities. And the man responsible […]
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2 fluoride toothpaste inventors from IU win posthumous fame
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) — Two Indiana University researchers whose cavity-fighting formula launched Crest toothpaste in the 1950s will be inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame. Joseph Muhler and William Nebergall will be inducted on May 2 in Washington, along with 17 other inventors and innovators. The Herald-Times reports that Muhler was a dentistry […]
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Milford Chooses Fluoridation
MILFORD — Milford Town Council chose not to eliminate fluoride from the town water supply during a busy monthly meeting Monday, March 12. Two members of the public in attendance expressed support for fluoridation’s benefits for children’s teeth. Rebecca Alles, Van Buren Township Trustee, cited the “enormous number of children who are not seeing the […]
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Cambridge City council discusses fluoride
Excerpts: CAMBRIDGE CITY — A vacancy will be forthcoming on the Cambridge City Town Council in February as the result of a member moving out of the town limits… The Council approved $9,000 to pressure wash the water tower in Cambridge City in the spring. Public Works Manager Doug Young recommended Leary Construction of Greenfield. […]
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