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  • The importance of the journal Fluoride

    Table 2. 56 Citations in the  landmark report on toxicology: Fluoride in Drinking Water: A Scientific Review of EPA’s Standards, published in 2006 by the National Resource Council of the National Academies. Note: The following two Tables list studies that have been published in Fluoride, a journal that PubMed, the largest search engine for biomedical […]

  • Backdoor Farm Bill Amendment Orders EPA to Ignore Unsafe Levels of Fluoride in Kid’s Food

    With the U.S. House of Representatives’ passage of the Agriculture Act of 2014 (commonly known as the Farm Bill) yesterday, conventional farming allies and chemical agribusiness dealt a dangerous blow to children’s health protections and offered up yet another reason for consumers everywhere to support organic. The behind-closed-door amendment to the Farm Bill that appeared […]

  • JNK and NADPH oxidase involved in fluoride-induced oxidative stress in BV-2 microglia cells.

    Abstract Excessive fluoride may cause central nervous system (CNS) dysfunction, and oxidative stress is a recognized mode of action of fluoride toxicity. In CNS, activated microglial cells can release more reactive oxygen species (ROS), and NADPH oxidase (NOX) is the major enzyme for the production of extracellular superoxide in microglia. ROS have been characterized as […]

  • Doctors deserve to know the research behind the risks

    Given the gravity of the current situation regarding increasing cancer incidence and the prevalence of chronic disease in the Republic, I wish to respond in some detail to the letter of Dr Susan O’Reilly in IMT (February 14, 2014), in response to Dr Philip Michael’s letter dated January 24, 2014. Dr O’Reilly states that Dr […]

  • Our kids’ bodies contaminated with chemicals! (Part 4)

    Last week, I wrote about the flame retardant chemical, polybrominated diphenyl ethers, (PBDEs), in children’s wear, as well as phthalates in plastic water bottles, toys, and beauty care products. These articles are to make parents more aware of the chemically wrapped gifts offered to their children by the food, clothing, body care, and toy industries. […]

  • UP in trouble for not checking ground water pollution

    LUCKNOW: Uttar Pradesh government may be headed for troubled waters over failure to curb extensive ground water contamination in the Singrauli area of Sonbhadra. Despite orders from the principal bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in New Delhi, the state government has not, so far, submitted a compliance report before the bench, with details […]

  • Kerala: Dental fluorosis on the rise

    Alappuzha: Even though dental fluorosis remains a major health problem in the district, the authorities have not implemented any of the suggestions that experts have made. The percentage of fluorosis incidence among children in the district is 40 currently while it was 35.6 in 1997. The overall prevalence of dental fluorosis in the district is 40 […]

  • Fluoride: The controversy beyond our toothbrushes

    Could my toothpaste be making me fat? Has fluoride been added to my water supply in an attempt only to help industrial company’s bottom line? Would you believe that it was once used for rat poison? And that it is linked to thyroid issues, hip fractures, fertility problems, Alzheimer’s disease, diabetes, neurological and brain functions? […]

  • Why we changed our minds about fluoridation

    Like many of our professional colleagues, we long held a belief that water fluoridation was beneficial and relatively low-risk. We now feel otherwise. We are convinced that it is of small benefit and carries an unacceptably large risk. What changed our thinking so dramatically? While reviewing medical studies for a new book, we were shocked […]

  • High fluoride content in drinking water major public health risk

    JAIPUR: High content of fluorides in drinking water are not only causing skeletal damages but it is also causing non-skeletal damages including infertility and mental disorders. In the state, a total of 2,749 samples (up to August 2014) was taken from different sources of water in 18 different districts and found that 1,717 of them […]