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Corning board will discuss water fluoridation
Corning | To fluoridate city drinking water or not. The topic has been considered by city leaders since the 1950s, but aldermen have never voted on the issue, said Mayor Frank P. Coccho. Water fluoridation is the act of adding fluoride ions to drinking water in order to reduce tooth decay. The city Board of […]
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Board of health won’t push for fluoride in water
A prominent dentist and Department of Health staff said Thursday adding fluoride to drinking water will help reduce cavities among Dutchess County’s poor children, but the Dutchess County Board of Health balked at promoting the fluoridation of public water supplies. Federal health agencies call fluoridation one of the most important public health achievements of the […]
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Former water plant guard says chemical cloud made her sick
On Dec. 24, Ava Morris was thinking about her 11-year-old son and making her rounds as a security guard at the Santee Cooper water-treatment plant in Moncks Corner. It was a silent night, uneventful, until she encountered a cloud of chemicals. “It looked like Christmas; it looked like snow,” Morris said. “In all honesty, for […]
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Dentist has Natives gnashing teeth
The president of the Alaska Dental Society apologized for the first time this week for making what he called “offensive and insensitive” comments about Alaska Natives. The statements, originally posted March 1 to an online discussion group, inflamed the already-heated dispute over creation of a dental therapist program in rural Alaska. Tribal health administrators overseeing […]
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Corning health board to discuss fluoride
Corning | A dispute that has divided communities across the country will soon be debated in the Crystal City. The city Board of Health will meet at 7 p.m. today to discuss the benefits of adding fluoride to the city water supply. Water fluoridation is the act of adding fluoride ions to drinking water in […]
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Fluoride May Cause Cancer
A study associating drinking fluoridated water with osteosarcoma, a rare malignant bone tumor, was published last Wednesday on “Cancer Causes and Control”, an online peer-review journal of Harvard University. Elise B. Bassin, a clinical instructor in Oral Health Policy and Epidemiology, who led the study, wrote in an e-mail that she found a significant relationship […]
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Debate on fluoride not cut and dried
The fluoridation of public water has been a contentious topic in Texarkana. Attempts to add the chemical to the water system have twice been rejected by Texarkana, Ark., voters, and since the water utility is a shared operation of both the Texas and Arkansas sides of town, this has effectively quashed the efforts. People pushing […]
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Borough water fluoridation ban seems imminent
HIGHTSTOWN — After months of debate, the Board of Health seems poised to recommend that the borough stop adding fluoride to its water supply. A draft recommendation to the Borough Council was introduced during Wednesday’s board meeting, with several members speaking out in favor of stopping the fluoridation of water until its potential benefits and […]
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Study links fluoride to bone cancer in boys
Boys who drink fluoridated water are five times more likely to develop a rare but deadly form of bone cancer than boys who drink water without the chemical, Harvard University researchers have found. The finding, if verified by further research, would disprove the U.S. government’s long-held contention that adding fluoride to tap water prevents tooth […]
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Fluoride debate may surge as treated water linked to cancer
Young boys who drink fluoridated tap water are at greater risk for a rare bone cancer, Harvard researchers reported yesterday. The study, published online yesterday in a Harvard-affiliated journal, could intensify debate over fluoridation and mean more scrutiny for Harvard’s Dr. Chester Douglass,accused of fudging the findings to downplay a cancer link. “It’s the best […]
United States, National USA