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Few Americans Are Aware They Have Chronic Kidney Disease
Ten to 20 million people in the United States have kidney disease but most don’t know it, according to researchers at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK) at the National Institutes of Health, the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) at […]
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Tracking Fluoride in the National Food Supply
The Agricultural Research Service has launched a database that lists the level of fluoride in 400 separate food and beverage items. The list will be important to researchers who strive to estimate the amount of fluoride that individuals consume daily. For more than half a century, to prevent tooth decay, small amounts of fluoride have […]
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More Tooth Decay in Poor Children; Fluoridation No Help
NEW YORK, Nov. 8 /PRNewswire/ — “Caries experience may be associated with income,” reports the U.S. Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Low income, not fluoridation deficiency, predicts more cavities is revealed in newly-released statistics posted 10/25/04 on the CDC’s website(1). Those states reporting third-graders cavity rates and children living below the federal poverty level indicate […]
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Improving America’s access to care: The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research addresses oral health disparities.
Abtract Background and Overview The National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research, or NIDCR, in 2001 sponsored the establishment of Centers for Research to Reduce Oral Health Disparities. The centers are based at Boston University; New York University; the University of Michigan; the University of Washington; and the University of California, San Francisco. Reflecting the […]
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Is Fluoride Really All That Safe?
“The Fluoride Deception” reads like a whodunit. There are conspiracies, cover-ups, human casualties, and broken careers. The prime suspects in this toxic thriller are compounds of fluoride; the coconspirators represent industry, the military, and the public health community. At the book’s ending, the suspect chemicals are not proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt, but we […]
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First Citizen’s Conference on Fluoride
Co-sponsored by: FLUORIDE ACTION NETWORK and HAUDENOSAUNEE ENVIRONMENTAL TASK FORCE (Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, Tuscarora) The First Citizens’ Conference on Fluoride will be held at St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York, and at the Mohawk Nation Longhouse at Akwesasne, near Massena NY. The conference has been convened to enable citizens, environmentalists, and those working […]
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National Health Alert on Imported High-Fluoride Toothpastes
NBC 5 reporter Ken Kalthoff first broke this story in May, when he found several tubes of foreign toothpaste at eight different dollar discount stores around North Texas. Shopping undercover, our NBC 5 crew found that most of the packages look a lot like regular American brands. In fact, customers at the stores told us […]
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Dentists Award the Cavity-prone and Toothless
“Fluoridation honors” were bestowed upon many communities (1), which happen to have the highest cavity and tooth loss rates, by the American Dental Association (ADA), the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and the American Association of State and Territorial Dental Directors (AASTDD), reports the New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation (NYSCOF). Fluoride added to […]
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Too Much Fluoride May Harm Babies’ Teeth
NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Fluoride in water has helped prevent millions of cavities, but the results of a new study suggest that infants who drink large amounts of beverages that contain fluoride may be at risk for discoloration of their primary teeth. In particular, infants who drank the most water-based beverages, particularly infant formulas […]
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Forsyth Institute ranks first in NIDCR funding at $12.1M
According to a recently published list of rankings for fiscal year 2003, the Forsyth Institute – a Harvard-affiliated nonprofit biomedical research organization – received more in federal grant funding from the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research (NIDCR) than any university or other research organization in its specialty. With 40 principal investigators, the Forsyth […]
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