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Many in Appalachia suffer dental woes that start early and last a lifetime
MARIETTA, Ohio — Some of the adult patients at the Southeastern Ohio Dental Clinic didn’t see a dentist once during childhood. Children as young as 5 have had to have all their baby teeth pulled. Patients in their 20s sometimes need dentures. Often, the only thing that brings them there is pain that won’t relent […]
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Dozens of personal injury lawsuits filed against DuPont
OHIO VALLEY — More than two dozen personal injury lawsuits have been filed by Mid-Ohio Valley residents against DuPont so far in response to findings by the C8 Science Panel linking C8 exposure to several different types of human disease. All but one of the cases was filed by Charleston, West Virginia attorney Kathy Brown […]
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Dozens of personal injury lawsuits filed against DuPont
OHIO VALLEY — More than two dozen personal injury lawsuits have been filed by Mid-Ohio Valley residents against DuPont so far in response to findings by the C8 Science Panel linking C8 exposure to several different types of human disease. All but one of the cases was filed by Charleston, West Virginia attorney Kathy Brown […]
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Athens County residents file C8-related lawsuits
Four Athens County residents filed lawsuits last week in Athens County Common Pleas Court against E.I. DuPont De Nemours & Co., over the company’s contamination of drinking-water supplies with C8, a chemical used in the manufacturing of Teflon at a DuPont plant in West Virginia. The four largely identical complaints, filed by West Virginia attorney […]
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C8 Science Panel Final Quarterly Newsletter
Contents: 1. Message from the C8 Science Panel 2. Final Science Panel Announcements 1. Message from the C8 Science Panel Dear Subscriber, Welcome to the tenth and final newsletter. We have been circulating to about 500 subscribers each quarter. We, the members of the C8 Science Panel, have now completed our primary task, which is […]
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Science Panel releases final C8 exposure reports, adds new disease to list
PARKERSBURG – The litigants in the West Virginia and Ohio class action lawsuit filed the science panel’s final set of reports on Oct. 29 that conclusively link DuPont’s PFOA in drinking water to serious human diseases. The panel previously reported links with kidney cancer, thyroid disease, testicular cancer, ulcerative colitis and pregnancy-inducted hypertension, including preeclampsia. […]
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C8 Science Panel releases final findings, attorneys explain rights to citizens
The C8 Science Panel released its final findings on Monday morning at a press conference near Parkersburg. The last of the C8 Science Panel’s research sought to find out whether the chemical, commonly known as C8 or PFOA, causes various diseases in humans with higher levels of the chemical in their blood stream. At another […]
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Athens: Councilman asks for fluoride approval to be separate from other water treatment chemicals
Athens City Councilman Elahu Gosney requested that the city separate legislation to approve chemicals used to fluoridate the city’s drinking water from other water treatment chemical approval requests, which would give fluoride opponents on Council the opportunity to voice their opinion. On Monday evening, Council discussed the purchase for 2013 of salt and other chemicals […]
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Kenton water plant leader addresses fluoride concerns
The head of Kenton’s water plant sought to “set the record straight” regarding fluoride in the city’s drinking water during a presentation to City Council on Monday night. Superintendent Tom Sweigart was responding to comments made by resident Joe Jared at council’s Aug. 27 meeting, during which Jared raised health concerns about fluoride in the […]
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Higher PFOA exposure increases risk of thyroid disease in children
Children living downstream of a chemical plant on the Ohio River drink in their water and carry in their blood a stain resistant chemical called PFOA. In one of the first studies of its effects on kids, those with the highest levels are more likely than the less-exposed to have thyroid disease. High exposures to […]
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