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$1.85M CDC grant aimed at improving dental health of Granite State residents
CONCORD, NH – The New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) has announced a five-year, $1.85 million grant from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that will help the Granite State improve and sustain oral health. The funding will go toward promoting oral health in three targeted areas: assisting school children who […]
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NYU College of Dentistry awarded $3.6 Million by NIH for Cavity Prevention Research in Rural NH
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, part of the National Institutes of Health, has awarded a research team at New York University College of Dentistry (NYU Dentistry) funding to study cavity prevention and cost effectiveness in school-based dental programs in New Hampshire. The $3.6 million, five-year grant (R01MD011526) will fund a statewide […]
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Fluoride issue won’t go to Dover voters
DOVER — The member of the Utilities Commission who sought to have the City Council add a question to November’s ballot on whether the city should continue adding fluoride to the public drinking water said on Thursday the City Council does not have that authority. In an email, Norman Allie wrote, “Upon further review, the […]
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Dover: Commission to consider status of fluoride in drinking water
DOVER — A member of the Utilities Commission wants to add a question to November’s ballot on whether the city should continue adding fluoride to the public drinking water. Utilities Commissioner Norman Allie made an initial presentation to the board at their regular meeting on Monday. Allie will make a formal presentation at June’s meeting […]
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Bills opposing fluoridation of water supplies killed by House committee
Two attempts to curtail fluoridation of public water supplies have been shot down by a committee of the New Hampshire House. One bill, HB230, would have made it harder to file petitions seeking to add fluoride to water supplies. The other, HB585, would have changed state law to ban fluoridation outright; currently, a municipal water supply can […]
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Litchfield is the latest in Northeast communities to be put over the edge over concerns that a potentially cancer-causing chemical has contaminated the drinking water
LITCHFIELD, New Hampshire — When Tracy Madden heard her water could be contaminated with the potentially cancer-causing chemical PFOA, she started thinking about all the ailments she’s endured over the years that her doctors couldn’t diagnose. The 49-year-old property manager from Litchfield, New Hampshire, thought back to the nerve pain that continues to nag her […]
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PFOA crisis: Residents consider blood tests and express concerns for pets, kids
LITCHFIELD – With the distribution of bottled water beginning Sunday, local residents remain on edge about their health, their children and their pets because of elevated levels of contamination detected in local wells. State officials have urged anyone within a one-mile radius of Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics in Merrimack not to drink or cook with their […]
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Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics: Search for PFOA Source Continues
Concord — A company that owns plants in three states where elevated levels of a chemical used to make Teflon coatings were found said Friday that its priority now is providing safe drinking water to residents and that placing blame will come later. Tom Kinisky, the CEO of Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics, told The Associated Press […]
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DES: 400 properties to get bottled water amid PFOA fears
LITCHFIELD – Concerned residents of southern New Hampshire towns, worried about contamination of local drinking water supplies by a potentially carcinogenic chemical, gathered in near silence on Thursday, following the announcement that approximately 400 affected properties would be issued bottled water purchased by Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics. “This is not to scare people,” said Clark Freise, […]
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Litchfield Town Manager on PFOA: Residents Concerned About Health, Home Values
State environmental officials continue to investigate to what extent drinking water systems in southern New Hampshire have been contaminated with the chemical known as PFOA. More water sample results are expected soon, as the state now says Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics in Merrimack is likely the source of that contamination. The community that’s been most affected […]
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