Mercury and other Health Topics in the News

ETHealthworld.com - 7 days ago
Scientific researchers have related the mercury in dental amalgam to many dangerous and lifelong debilitating diseases like Alzheimer, Lou Gehrig's disease, antibiotic resistance, autism spectrum...

Chemical Watch (subscription) - 3 weeks ago
In an interim response, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) says it has been unable to reach a decision on a petition to require warning against dental amalgam use in sensitive populations. The...

allAfrica.com - 1 week ago
Environmental health stakeholders are calling for the passing of legislations in Tanzania that will ban the use of dental amalgam, a liquid mercury and...

EU News - 5 days ago
The EU Mercury Regulation addresses the issue of dental amalgam which is the largest remaining use of mercury in the EU. In particular, it sets both short and longer term measures to reduce use of...

Medscape - 2 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...

Dentistry IQ - 18 hours ago
The The partnership between the Denver-based organizations will allow GDR to provide 1,000 fluoride treatments to children each year. With ConfaDent's three-year commitment, GDR can plan budgets...

KOAT.com - 1 day ago
Just one week ago, the Water Authority unexpectedly voted on a plan to add fluoride to Albuquerque's water supply. The topic was not on the agenda. The city's ...and...

Foster's Daily Democrat - 4 days ago
DOVER — The member of the Utilities Commission who sought to have the City Council add a question to November's ballot on whether the city should continue adding fluoride to the public drinking...

Anniston Star - 7 days ago
The chemical compound many health care experts and decades of research states prevents tooth decay was removed from the city's water supply four years ago. Despite hearing a panel of experts'...

Alabama's News Leader - 5 days ago
South told ABC 33/40 the water has some natural fluoride in it already. He continued to say after much research , the city won't force more of the element on anyone. "Fluoride is in many...

Uniontown Herald Standard - 9 hours ago
Many people have died from drug overdoes, but most people who overdose survive and it takes courage from them and support from their families for people to fight through addiction to live happy...

People - 1 week ago
"I believe the first step to combatting the opiate [crisis] is dismantling the stigma attached to addiction," actor Ethan Embry tweeted...

NECN - 5 days ago
Massachusetts received a $12 million federal grant, and Gov. Charlie Baker has pledged the bulk of that money will go into expanding recovery services.and...

WMDT - 2 days ago
OCEAN CITY, Md. - In Ocean City, folks made their way to the Alibi Room to rock out against addiction. It's an event to help raise awareness of the opiate epidemic, hosted by the Worcester County...

Cincinnati.com - 4 weeks ago
Elizabeth Osinbowale is the CEO of the Crossroads Center. The ongoing opiate epidemic has hit our Hamilton County community very hard. Hamilton County has one of the highest rates of overdose in the...

NBCNews.com - 52 minutes ago
It started with 10 students complaining of high fevers, sore throats and coughs — but within two weeks in February at The College at Brockport, 375 had the flu, the biggest outbreak in decades....

Brownwood News - 1 hour ago
Vaccinations are a vital part of health maintenance for your horse. They provide an active immunity to protect the horse against diseases they are intended for. Giving vaccinations does not keep your...

BBC News - 4 days ago
The government in Italy has ruled that children must be vaccinated against 12 common illnesses before they can enrol for state-run schools. Prime Minister Paolo Gentiloni blamed a decrease in...

KSN-TV - 21 hours ago
Vaccines are recommended to protect travelers from illnesses present in other parts of the world.and...

Lexology (registration) - 21 hours ago
A recent case sheds some light on a trending social issue – an individual's reluctance to be vaccinated because of fears of adverse reactions. A federal district court in Pennsylvania granted a...

Finance Magnates - 2 hours ago
At the meeting of its board of directors held today, the parent company of Japan's largest FX retail broker, GMO Click Holdings, said that it proposes a “partial change to articles of...

AgWeb - 21 hours ago
China is the world's fourth-largest grower of GMO cotton and the top importer of soybeans, most of which are genetically modified and used for cooking oil and animal feed for pigs and chickens....

Genetic Literacy Project - 3 hours ago
The group is an active and visible leader in the anti-GMO movement, but it's also staunchly anti-vaccine. One of the main partners in “Health Liberty,” an anti-vaccine, anti-GMO,...

Reuters - 5 hours ago
BRIEF-GMO Click Holdings to change name to GMO Financial Holdings. May 23 GMO Click Holdings Inc. * Says it will change name to GMO Financial Holdings, Inc. on Oct. 1. Source text in...

Forbes - 5 days ago
The thoroughly answered question of whether vaccines cause autism isn't really a question outside of conspiracy-theorist circles. The body of evidence shows that vaccination has eradicated...

Science Magazine - 4 weeks ago
Six years later, driven by that painful jab, Durant has become a vaccine injury lawyer with a bustling practice in Washington, D.C., half a mile from a red brick building that houses what is...

Cranston Herald - 4 weeks ago
In 1986 the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act was passed where The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Board was formed by Congress at the bequest of the vaccine manufacturers because they were...

Collective Evolution - 2 weeks ago
Vaccine manufacturers do enjoy unprecedented legal protection against design defect claims brought by vaccine injury claimants. Manufacturers also are shielded from discovery by the requirement that...

Stowe Today - 5 days ago
Just seven years later, in 1986, Congress passed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, shielding vaccine manufacturers and doctors from civil product liability and malpractice lawsuits when a...

Law360 (subscription) - 4 weeks ago
The U.S. government has urged the U.S. Supreme Court not to review a decision that denied compensation to the parents of a child who was allegedly ...and...

Chemical & Engineering News - 6 days ago
Graham Hutchings of Cardiff University made a discovery in 1982 that came to define his career. He predicted that gold—despite its reputation for being inert—should be an excellent catalyst for...

The Boston Globe - 2 days ago
Power plants, however, have cut emissions and manufacturers have reduced the amount of mercury in their products, so its levels have been declining. A 2014 state study found that mercury pollution in...

The Daily News of Newburyport - 4 weeks ago
Mercury poses a dangerous threat to people and the environment, and northeastern Massachusetts has been tainted by higher-than-normal levels of the heavy ...and...

The Japan Times - 5 days ago
An international anti-mercury pollution treaty will now go into force on Aug. 16 as the necessary number of countries have approved it, the secretariat of.and...

UN-backed treaty on mercury to enter ... - 4 days ago
The world took an historic step forward in the fight against mercury poisoning as the European Union and seven of its member States ratified the first new...

Health Affairs (blog) - 2 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...

NutraIngredients-usa.com - 1 years ago
Michael McIntosh, PhD, RD – Lucy S. Keker Excellence Professor, Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina – Greensboro. Dr. McIntosh's research focuses on the...

Nature.com - 1 years 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...

Nature.com - 2 yearss ago
Article | PubMed |; Yoganathan, P., Karunakaran, S., Ho, M. M. & Clee, S. M. Nutritional regulation of genome-wide association obesity genes in a tissue-dependent manner. Nutr. Metab. (Lond.) 9,...

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...