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  • Fluoridation and bone disease in renal patients

    About the Authors: William J Johnson, director of the Mayo Artificial Kidney Center and professor of medicine with the Division of Nephrology at the Mayo Clinic, has been involved in the study of calcium and phosphorus metabolism and renal osteodystrophy, potassium metabolism, and uremic neuropathy. He is past chairman of the Minnesota State Medical Association’s Committee […]

  • Renal failure and fluorosis

    It is generally agreed that water fluoridation is safe for persons with normal kidneys. Systemic fluorosis in patients with diminished renal function, however, seems a reasonable possibility. In such patients, fluoride may be retained with resulting higher tissue fluoride levels than in persons with normal renal function.

  • Alert on long-term lumbago and skelalgia not responsive to anti-rheumatic pharmacotherapy

    In our work we have often dealt with patients who were diagnosed with “rheumatic or rheumatoid arthritis” in rural basic medical units or certain hospitals. A minority of those patients did have rheumatoid arthritis, but most of them did not improve with anti-rheumatic pharmacotherapy for multiple years; instead, their conditions worsened increasingly. Some of them […]

  • Oro-dental health in children with chronic renal failure and after renal transplantation: a clinical review

    Enamel hypoplasia   The pathogenesis of this is that severe metabolic upset causes a permanent mark, called enamel hypoplasia, in the developing tooth which remains as a visible defect on the tooth throughout the life of the patient. The position and extent of the defect indicates the timing, duration and to some extent the severity […]

  • Introducing the FAN Study Tracker

    The Fluoride Action Network is excited to announce the launch of the FAN Study Tracker, the most up-to-date and comprehensive source for fluoride health research, including studies investigating how fluoride affects the brain (e.g., IQ scores), the bones/joints (e.g., arthritis), the cardiovascular system, the kidneys, and the thyroid gland. Features of the Study-Tracker include: Over 1,500 […]

  • Introducing the FAN Study Tracker

    Dear Supporter: The Fluoride Action Network is excited to announce the launch of the FAN Study Tracker, the most up-to-date and comprehensive source for fluoride health research, including studies investigating how fluoride affects the brain (e.g., IQ scores), the bones/joints (e.g., arthritis), the cardiovascular system, the kidneys, and the thyroid gland. Features of the Study-Tracker include: […]

  • Fluorosis Class Action Lawsuit

    Dear Supporter, Below is an important news release on recent developments in the fluorosis legal battle sent out by Dan Stockin, MPH of the Lillie Center in Georgia: NEWS RELEASE: For Immediate Release Fluorides Under Fire: Legal Community Awakens as Federal Fluoride Harm Case Proceeds to Oral Arguments and Fluoride Harm Newspaper Advertising Appears Legal […]

  • Fluoride Debate: Wave of Fluorosis Cases begins

    The damage caused to teeth by fluoride has been dismissed as ‘cosmetic’ by the Irish Expert Body on Health and Fluoride. But that is an outrageous minimisation of what is an increasing problem on both sides of the Atlantic. It is an issue, the courts may have to deal with… In a groundbreaking new move […]

  • Worldwide Alliance to End Fluoridation

    Worldwide Alliance to End Fluoridation Why we have to end water fluoridation worldwide. Introduction: Fluoridation is the practice of adding a compound containing (or generating) the fluoride ion into the public water supply ostensibly to fight tooth decay. The concentration of the fluoride ion used averages about 1 milligram per liter or 1 part per […]

  • Serum fluoride concentrations and exocrine kidney function with sevoflurane and enflurane. An open, randomized, comparative phase III study of patients with healthy kidneys.