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Public health threat? Interview with Declan Waugh
BANDON based environmental scientist Declan Waugh has called on the Government, in line with that done already by other European Union (EU) member states, to immediately end its policy of water fluoridation based on scientific knowledge that it is harmful to human health, marine life and the environment. His case for Ireland harmonising its public […]
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Louth County Council: Fluoride question will ‘come back to haunt us’
‘ THIS WILL come back to haunt us. We are burying our head in the sand,’ Cllr Jim Loughran warned at the monthly meeting of Louth County Council. He had tabled a question asking ‘for what purpose is fluoride being added to the domestic water supply in the country,’ and said that while he noted […]
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Irish government urged to add lithium salts to water supply in suicide battle
Leading psychiatrist identifies aid against rising depression A leading psychiatrist has urged the Irish government to add lithium salts to the public water supply to aid the battle against suicide and depression. Well known consultant psychiatrist Dr Moosajee Bhamjee made the call at a mental health forum on ‘Depression in Rural Ireland’ in the Clare […]
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Letter: Let’s re-open debate on fluoride in our taps
So yet another pre-election promise has been broken. This time a last-minute promise proposed at the 11th hour by the Labour Party in an attempt to sway voters: water charges. We are supposed to be convinced that these charges will ‘create jobs’ like those that will ‘result’ from raiding people’s private pension funds. Seeing as […]
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Greater Dublin area: New bid to cut tooth decay in children
A NEW Irish research project hopes to address the alarmingly high rate of tooth decay among pre-schoolers. It has emerged that more than one in five children in the greater Dublin area who needed to have a tooth extracted under general anaesthetic were four and under. A new Irish research project, supported by funding from […]
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Thousands of suspected fluorosis cases reported
A leading GP has made a report to the Eudra Vigilance Medicinal Product Database (EVMPD) for alleged adverse reactions arising from the intake by several thousands of Irish children of fluoridated national drinking water supplies. Co Kildare GP Dr Andrew Rynne told IMN last week that he reported an adverse reaction of dental fluorosis, under […]
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75% of kids have tooth decay by 15
Three in four Irish children have experienced tooth decay by the time they reach the age of 15, dentists have warned. They are calling on the Minister for Health, Mary Harney, to introduce public health warning labels for fizzy drinks in an attempt to combat this problem. They say that the warning could be similar […]
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Act on fluoride study now
Why wait another three years before John Gormley’s fluoride safety study is ready (Irish Independent, February 13) when he, like the rest of Europe, has already found fluoridation to be both unsafe and ineffective? It took him years of researching the international evidence (because no independent studies have ever been done here), and he brought […]
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Gormley’s fluoride safety study won’t be ready until 2012
A study on the safety of fluoride in public drinking supplies will not be available until 2012 – more than five years after Green Party leader John Gormley promised to outlaw the chemical if elected to government. It is already nearly three years since the study was promised in the Programme for Government. But the […]
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Bio-monitoring programme in 2010 to measure fluoride levels in general population
Excerpt of article titled: 84% of delegates vote in favour of new programme THE GREEN Party decisively endorsed the Programme for Government and also rejected, by a large majority, a motion opposing the setting up of the National Asset Management Agency (Nama). At the conclusion of its day-long special convention at the RDS on Saturday, […]
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