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EPA reports no environmental threat to farm area
PHILADELPHIA, PA – Environmental authorities found no immediate environmental threat to a rural area where farmers reported mysterious maladies that made them sick and killed their livestock, officials reported Wednesday. After a 14-month study, investigators from the federal Environmental Protection Agency found many of the problems to be associated with the way farmers manage their […]
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Effort to put fluoride back into water system meets strong resistance in Ste. Genevieve, Mo.
STE. GENEVIEVE, MO. – More than 30,000 volunteers and 1 million sandbags helped this historic city on the Mississippi River fight the Flood of 1993. Most of its French colonial houses survived. Its contaminated water-treatment plant reopened. And the tourists came back. But one thing never returned. As dentist Kent Sadler found out at a […]
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Fluoride enters Las Vegas water supply
Beaming dentists and health officials toasted each other with tap water-filled champagne glasses on Wednesday hours after Las Vegas became one of the last major American cities to fluoridate its water supply. “To a happier, healthier Nevada,” State Health Officer Mary Guinan said as she raised her plastic goblet at the ceremony outside the Community […]
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Study: More Kids On Prescribed Drugs
CHICAGO (AP) – The number of 2- to 4-year-olds taking psychiatric drugs like Ritalin and Prozac soared 50 percent between 1991 and 1995, according to a new study that experts said reveals a troubling and growing trend. Doctors said the effects of such drugs are largely unknown in children so young and they worry the […]
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Medical Journals Exercise Clout in News Coverage
Every week, the most prestigious medical and scientific journals in the world send advance information on their newest research findings to general interest news organizations in cities large and small. Most of the journals also send along press releases, touting the most important of their findings and hoping to see the names of their publications […]
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Fluoride measure appears bottled up
Despite the fact that the House yesterday gave preliminary approval to a fluoridation bill, the legislation appears to be heading toward a dead end. Senate Health and Human Services Committee chairwoman Suzanne Chun Oakland (D-Palama, Aiewa Heights) said she will defer a decision on the governor’s bill to fluoridate the water supply “indefinitely.” She said […]
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Brattleboro weighs fluoridation of water
The long-dormant issue of fluoridating Brattleboro’s water has been pushed to the forefront with a healthy shove last week from Gov. Howard Dean. Brattleboro recently applied for a $300,000 state grant to establish a free dental clinic for children, but selectmen said they hoped that Dean’s comments had nothing to do with the grant application. […]
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Brewster to discuss adding fluoride to water
BREWSTER – The opening round of what is sure to be a hot debate about the merits of adding fluoride to the town’s water system will start at 7 p.m. Tuesday in town hall. The informational meeting was scheduled by the Brewster Board of Health to review the town’s options on fluoride. Representatives from the […]
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Dean says Brattleboro needs to fluoridate its water
Vermont’s doctor governor has a prescription for the people of Brattleboro: Put fluoride in your public water system. Gov. Howard Dean said Monday that studies have shown that Brattleboro residents have about twice as many cavities as residents who live in towns that add fluoride to water supplies. He said by not fluoridating the water, […]
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Some Paducah workers were used in uranium experiments
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Workers at the Paducah Gaseous Diffusion Plant participated in radiation experiments during the 1950s, but some may not have been informed of the dangers, according to a federal report obtained by The Courier-Journal. At least 14 workers at the federal uranium processing plant who tested the effectiveness of respirators against radioactive dust, […]
United States, Kentucky Nuclear Industry
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