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• Is Fluoride “Brain-Drain” Damaging Generations of Children?

  New York – June 25 – Fluoride is one of 213 known brain-toxic chemicals that may lower the intelligence of generations of children, reports renowned physician and 30-year brain researcher, Dr. Phillipe Grandjean in his new book, “Only One Chance: How Environmental Pollution Impairs Brain Development,” reports the New York State Coalition Opposed to Fluoridation, […]

• Kidney Foundation Drops Fluoridation Support

  Fluoride may damage bones of kidney patients NEW YORK, June 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — The National Kidney Foundation withdrew its support of water fluoridation citing the 2006 National Research Council (NRC) report indicating that kidney patients are more susceptible to fluoride’s bone and teeth-damaging effects. The kidney-impaired retain more fluoride and risk skeletal fluorosis (an arthritic-type […]

• Border Town Mystery: Why are so many Brownsville babies being born brainless?

  Brownsville, Texas – On a hairpin bend of the Rio Grande, where the south wind from Mexico carries the sweet smell of freshly cut sorghum and the stench of chemicals, something terrible befell Janet Ramirez. The child she had prayed for, her first, was born dead with a tangled mass of nerve endings instead of […]

• Company Struggles to Keep U.S. in the Uranium Enrichment Game

  EUNICE, N.M. — While the only American-owned company that enriches uranium prepares for bankruptcy, its competitor is zooming ahead with construction of what it describes as a cluster of far more economical and efficient new centrifuges. Urenco, a German-Dutch-British consortium that began producing here in 2010, is on its way to doubling its size, and […]

• Cities facing a shortage of fluoride additive

  LAKELAND, Fla., Aug. 11— A growing number of cities are facing severe shortages of fluoride additives used in water supplies to prevent tooth decay. Twelve cities in the West and Middle West, including Seattle, Youngstown, Ohio, and Green Bay, Wis., have been forced to halt their fluoridation programs, according to Arthur Jackson, a public health […]

• Should fluoride be forced upon us?

  Health Secretary Alan Johnson is calling for fluoride to be added to England’s water supplies in the hope of reducing tooth decay among some of society’s poorest and most vulnerable. For a public which has grown accustomed to health interventions – from seat belts to smoking bans – it may seem curious that such a […]

• Secretary of State calls for debate on fluoridation to improve dental health

  New government funding and guidance to help facilitate local fluoridation schemes Health Secretary Alan Johnson today urged the NHS to consider fluoridating tap water for those areas with poor dental health to help prevent tooth decay and reduce health inequalities. £14 million per annum extra funding will be made available over the next 3 years […]

• Nestle, Dannon, Gerber Beat Baby Product Fluoride Suit

  Law360, New York (August 27, 2013, 8:08 PM ET) — A federal judge last week tossed a lawsuit accusing Nestle USA Inc., Gerber Products Co. Inc. and The Dannon Co. Inc. of failing to warn consumers that their bottled water and baby food and formula products contain excessive amounts of fluoride, finding federal law preempts […]

• Pakistani Said To Have Given Libya Uranium

  The network led by the Pakistani nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan shipped partly enriched uranium directly to Libya aboard a Pakistani airplane in 2001, providing the fuel stock in addition to the designs and technology to make a nuclear bomb, according to a report by Malaysian investigators released Friday. The report provides a wealth of […]

• Legacy of pain

  Donald F. Metzen looks back with anger when thinking about his career, remembering all the chemicals he says he watched his company dump into Two Mile Creek. For years, he suspected those chemicals caused his wife’s death and his ailments. Today, he suspects the wastes from the defunct telephone equipment manufacturing company, Western Electric, also […]