Mercury and other Health Topics in the News

American Council on Science and Health - 14 hours ago
Since then he's promoted anti-vaccine, anti-GMO stances, warned about the presence of aluminum in cookware, and government “death panels”, decried the use of mercury-containing dental...

MENAFN.COM - 1 week ago
The global dental amalgam market is segmented on the basis of particle shape, particle size, metals and number of alloy metals. Based on particle shape, the market has been segmented as lath cut...

The Olympian - 4 weeks ago
As co-chair of Mercury Awareness Team of Washington, and as a registered nurse, I am pleased to report that the European Union is banning mercury amalgam dental filings for children under 15,...

Idaho Statesman - 2 weeks ago
The article, “The high cost of aging in the U.S.,” addresses a couple's financial difficulties paying for the husband's assisted living care.and...

Medscape - 6 months ago
There will also be an EU assessment of whether to phase out dental amalgam entirely by 2030. The British Dental Association (BDA) says the move has ended months of speculation that dental amalgam...

CNN - 4 days ago
The study found a drop in scores on intelligence tests for every 0.5 milligram-per-liter increase in fluoride exposure beyond 0.8 milligrams per liter found in urine. However, although the...

Daily Bulldog - 15 hours ago
Fluoride is a form of the element fluorine. It occurs naturally in mineral formations and in all natural bodies of water around the world. Fluoride that is added to drinking water comes from natural...

National Post - 2 days ago
In what is being described as the first study of its kind and size exploring fluoride exposure and different stages of brain development, University of Toronto-led researchers analyzed data from 287...

Newsweek - 4 days ago
Children whose mothers were exposed to high levels of fluoride during pregnancy may be at risk of having a lower...

Aspen Times - 10 hours ago
A new study on fluoride was released on Sept. 19. The is the first study funded by the U.S. government to study the relationship between fluoride and the IQ...

My Eastern Shore - 24 hours ago
CENTREVILLE — Some began their opiate use from prescription medication, some through friends offering pills, and others simply seeking the high. But on Tuesday night, Sept. 19, at Queen Anne's...

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - 1 day ago
The school decided to host the screening after seeing the effects of opiate addiction on members in the Oconomowoc community, said OHS Principal Joseph Moylan. He wanted to find a way to bring home...

Williston Observer - 2 days ago
Gov. Phil Scott announced last week that wait lists for opiate addiction treatment have been eliminated in Chittenden County, and that the state can now quickly meet the demand for treatment services...

BurlingtonFreePress.com - 1 week ago
People addicted to opiates hoping to get into treatment in Chittenden County will no longer face a waiting list. Gov. Phil Scott announced the elimination of the waiting list for medication-assisted...

Salt Lake Tribune - 18 hours ago
The harsh realities of our country's opiate addiction problem can make the film difficult to watch, Dreyfous said, adding: “It's also really hard to like addicts when they are addicts.”...

fox5sandiego.com - 12 hours ago
SAN DIEGO -- A clinic providing shots to in a bid to contain a deadly hepatitis A outbreak continued Friday inside the community concourse outside San Diego City Hall. About 880 people received shots...

The Mercury News - 4 days ago
Vaccinations. All pets need them – but what do they actually do? Where do you go to get them? And what do they cost? Vaccinations for your pet are vital to protect them from death and disease, so...

Los Angeles Times - 5 days ago
After news that San Diego's deadly hepatitis A outbreak may have infiltrated the food service industry, more than 200 people this weekend lined up for vaccinations as restaurants reinforced their...

Northwest Georgia News - 16 hours ago
The Polk County Health Department, 125 East Ware Street, Cedartown, is now offering flu vaccines. Please call the health department at 770-749-2270 to schedule an appointment. Public health experts...

KTVU San Francisco - 1 day ago
SAN FRANCISCO (BCN) With outbreaks of a deadly liver disease reported in San Diego and in Los Angeles and Santa Cruz counties, San Francisco officials are hoping to prevent it from taking hold here...

AgWeb - 1 day ago
Grower-Led Group Launches, Highlights GMO Benefits. September 21, 2017 02:55 PM. Tweet. A Fresh Look, a 501(c)(6) organization, has formed to accomplish the mission of providing trustworthy,...

Forbes - 2 days ago
INSULIN — Few folks think about GMOs in the full set that science does, but insulin is considered the first GMO, before that it was sourced from taking the pancreas from animals [1]. Having had a...

The Daily News of Newburyport - 1 day ago
Monsanto's experiment on all life on this planet is a failed one. There is no control group. We are all being poisoned. What can we do about it? Don't panic, go organic! Buy non-GMO foods,...

BevNET.com - 10 hours ago
WESTCHESTER, Ill. (September 22, 2017) – Ingredion Incorporated, a leading global provider of ingredient solutions to diversified industries, today announced 17 additions to its broad list of...

Augusta Free Press - 3 hours ago
The National Bioengineered Food Disclosure Standard, also known as the national GMO labeling rule, is intended to require the disclosure of bioengineered food ingredients. The standard was signed...

AAP News - 3 weeks ago
In a series of 13 cases among adult patients published by the Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (Atanasoff S, et al. Vaccine. 2010;28:8049-8052), shoulder pain was noted immediately after...

CapitalGazette.com - 2 days ago
Nurse Michelle Arnold administers the human papilloma virus vaccine to Brianna Furrow, 14, at Medford Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine in Medford, New Jersey, in 2006. The vaccine is administered...

Sacramento Bee (blog) - 1 week ago
The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program was created decades ago, after lawsuits against vaccination companies and health care organizations threatened to bring about vaccine shortages and...

89.3 KPCC - 2 weeks ago
That is not necessarily a vaccine injury. He is likely prone to fainting so he will have to be careful whenever he gets a shot or gives blood, etc. That being said, a few rare cases of fainting after...

PR Newswire (press release) - 5 days ago
This misconduct undermines the legitimacy of these studies which were used to refute vaccine injury claims in the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP). The studies were also used in...

Voice of America - 1 day ago
Few are left from a group of survivors of a 1950s industrial disaster in which tens of thousands of people were poisoned after wastewater seeped into Minamata ...and...

The Revelator - 2 weeks ago
The Persistent Sediments of Mercury Pollution. An atrocity of mercury poisoning began in the 1930s. Does a new treaty go far enough? Essays. September 7, 2017 - by Claret Vargas. Steven Brace (CC BY...

Japan Today - 9 hours ago
Shinobu Sakamoto was just 15 when she left her home in the southern Japanese fishing village of Minamata to go to Stockholm and tell the world of the horrors ...and...

AllAfrica.com - 2 days ago
In November 2016, The Gambia government joined the list of countries that ratified Minamata Convention on Mercury, aimed at protecting human health and the environment from anthropogenic mercury...

The Guardian - 5 days ago
This results from their reliance on eating fish, which concentrate the mercury pollution found across the world's oceans and much of which originates from coal burning. The most extreme levels...

Entomology Today - 2 months ago
An alfalfa leafcutting bee (Megachile rotundata) visits an alfalfa flower. A new study on the species shows that larval diet influences whether it matures and ...and...

Health Affairs (blog) - 3 yearss ago
Past industry action has shown that food outlets could proactively make voluntary changes to products to reduce the threat of future, more stringent nutritional regulation. In the end, these...

Huffington Post (blog) - 6 yearss ago
Our results show strong nutritional regulation, reinforcing the fact that macronutrient regulation is common across trophic levels [feeding positions in a food chain] and providing important...

Nature.com - 2 yearss ago
Article | PubMed |; Yettefti K, Orsini J-C, Perrin J. Characteristics of glycemia-sensitive neurons in the nucleus tractus solitarii: possible involvement in nutritional regulation. Physiol Behav...

The Conversation US - 2 yearss ago
Research focuses on division of labor, aggression, and the famous dance language, a system of symbolic communication. Current projects include: 1) nutritional regulation of brain gene expression and...