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Fluoridation: Debate over safety is renewed
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 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, […]
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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 […]
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Fluoride decision to force resident to leave
A fluoride-intolerant man from Wodonga, in north-east Victoria, says he will be forced to move house when the chemical is added to the city’s water. Last month, it was announced fluoride would soon be put into Wodonga and Wangaratta’s supply. Andrew Shadbolt says he breaks out in eczema and headaches when he has contact with […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Fluoridation debated in Ballarat
THE fluoride debate was reignited at a community forum in Ballarat last night. About 80 people gathered to witness debate on the fluoridation of Ballarat’s water supply at the Ballarat: A Learning City forum, held at BRACE Education, Training and Employment. Central Highlands Primary Care Partnership policy and development officer Tracey Wilson told the crowd […]
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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 […]
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