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Unlicenced drug used for babies condemned by health NGOs
Five non-governmental organisations (NGOs), the Alliance for Natural Health, the Dr Rath Health Foundation, the National Health Federation, VOICE and MayDay, have formed a new alliance to challenge national and international regulations and guidelines that continue to allow the use of synthetic fluorides in infant formulas. After decades of use in drinking water in certain […]
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New WHO report tackles fluoride in drinking-water
21 November 2006 | Geneva – Millions of people are exposed to excessive amounts of fluoride through drinking water contaminated from natural geological sources. As a result, many suffer conditions ranging from mild dental fluorosis to crippling skeletal fluorosis. With the problem continuing to be unrecognized and neglected, guidance is sorely needed. Clinical dental fluorosis […]
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New WHO report tackles fluoride in drinking-water
21 NOVEMBER 2006 | GENEVA — Millions of people are exposed to excessive amounts of fluoride through drinking water contaminated from natural geological sources. As a result, many suffer conditions ranging from mild dental fluorosis to crippling skeletal fluorosis. With the problem continuing to be unrecognized and neglected, guidance is sorely needed. Clinical dental fluorosis […]
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Study: Aluminum fluoride causes dementia
KARACHI: The aluminium pans and foils, used widely in baking needs, should be avoided because they cause dementia (forgetfulness), according to Dr. Kaneez Fatima Shad, professor of molecular medicine and neuro-physiology at the Dr Panjwani Centre for Molecular Medicine and Drug Research, University of Karachi. “To avoid the early onset of dementia it is advisable […]
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Pollution ‘putting millions of children at brain damage risk’
Millions of children throughout the world may have suffered brain damage as a result of industrial pollution, researchers say. Common pollutants may be causing a “silent pandemic” of neurodevelopmental disorders by impairing the brain development of foetuses and infants, scientists writing today in The Lancet medical journal say. Potential effects of exposure to even tiny […]
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SIDS Initial Assessment Report: Ammonium Perfluorooctanoate & Perfluorooctanoic Acid.
Read the report online here 1. Chemical Name: Ammonium Perfluorooctanoate & Perfluorooctanoic Acid 2. CAS Number: 3825-26-1 and 335-67-1 3. Sponsor Country Environment and Exposure BMU (Bundesministerium fu?r Umwelt, Naturschutz und Reaktorsicherheit) Contact person: Alexander Nies Postfach 12 06 29 D- 53048 Bonn Human Health part US-EPA 4. Shared Partnership with: Environmental and Exposure part: […]
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Ruthenium helps scientists spot fluoride
Researchers in Nanjing have discovered a new method for detecting fluoride in water which means the element can be seen with the naked eye. Using a ruthenium compound, scientists at the State Key Laboratory of Coordination Chemistry have developed a photoactive ruthenium bipyridine segment which changes colour from orange to blue when it bonds with […]
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Tooth Decay Vaccine Shows Promising Results
Portuguese scientists announce they have developed an experimental vaccine against tooth decay, which was yielded positive results in laboratory tests on rats and could be the precursor for a version that works for humans. “What we found is that the animals which were vaccinated with this protein developed much smaller lesions than the control group […]
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Removal of fluoride from semiconductor wastewater by electrocoagulation-flotation.
Abstract This work employs an anodic surfactant, sodium dodecyl sulfate (SDS), to improve the flotation performance of the electrocoagulation-flotation (ECF) process to treated fluoride containing semiconductor wastewater following calcium precipitation. The dissolved fluoride ions and CaF(2) particles in the wastewater after calcium precipitation were effectively removed in the ECF process simultaneously. The dosage of SDS […]
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Fluoridation: No Benefit, Another Study Shows
Dental examinations of 4800 South Australian ten- to fifteen-year-olds’ permanent teeth reveal unexpected results – similar cavity rates whether they drink fluoridated water or not, reports Armfield and Spencer in the August 2004 “Community Dentistry and Oral Epidemiology”(1). Children sampled lived in fluoridated and nonfluoridated metropolitan and rural areas of the Australian state, South Australia. […]
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