Mercury and other Health Topics in the News

CDA (California Dental Association) - 2 weeks ago
... withdrawal of the rule to allow sanitation agencies, states and regions to “develop their own guidelines to use when developing and enforcing dental amalgam programs which will allow for the...

Forecasts Based on Product and Opportunity Assessment by Technavio - 3 days ago
Dental amalgam is a liquid mercury and metal alloy blend used to fill pits created by dental caries. It is a blend of silver alloy and mercury. The silver combination is a fine powder that is made...

Collective Evolution - 6 days ago
A new EU mercury regulation plans to prohibit the use of amalgam for vulnerable populations (pregnant or breastfeeding women, children under 15 years old) and provide for discussion about the...

The Hindu - 1 day ago
At the slightest doubt of a bruise, we would rush to our school infirmary for a dash of a bright red liquid called 'mercurochrome'. The colour refused to fade from our uniform for weeks...

ABC Newspapers - 2 days ago
This will include rooms for specialty cases, a suite for isolated dental amalgam removal and a surgical suite. He is looking to hire one or two more dentists based on patient demand....

Gloucester Daily Times - 3 days ago
I feel it essential that I respond again to another letter to the editor on May 31 (“Pushing back on fluoride”) that reacted negatively to my letter on May 16 (“In defense of Moulton,...

OzarksFirst.com - 5 days ago
BATTLEFIELD, Mo. – The board for the Water Protection District in Battlefield voted unanimously to remove fluoride from its drinking water Tuesday – leaving many residents upset. Many said...

Pasadena Now - 4 hours ago
Have you ever wondered why Pasadena's tap water tastes different from your favorite bottled water at the store or from the ice cold cooler at the office? Chances are it could be the fluoride that...

KTTS - 5 days ago
There will be no more fluoride in the water supply in Battlefield. The Water Protection District board voted to remove it. Fluoride opponents say it will save taxpayers about $85,000 dollars a year....

KVUE - 6 days ago
The MUD, he explained, had already created a fourth well that would ideally be opening soon and help dilute the fluoride. Additionally, they had a second well in the works and were in the process of...

WCAX.COM Local Vermont News, Weather and Sports- - 2 days ago
A walk Saturday in Newport aimed at raising awareness about the opiate epidemic and breaking the stigma surrounding it. Travis Blake struggled with opiate abuse for a decade. He says finding religion...

Buffalo News - 2 hours ago
Dr. Torin Finver is the assistant professor of Family and Addictive Medicine at Jacobs School of Medicine at the University at Buffalo. He's also the medical director of Horizon Health and...

New York Daily News - 3 days ago
Frequently asked questions about opioid and opiate addiction and use. What are opioids? What are opiates? How do opioids affect the brain and the body? Why are opioids addictive? How quickly can...

The Cannabist - 1 week ago
She cited a lack of scientific research to support the argument that cannabis can offer relief from the pain and suffering of people struggling with opiate addiction. She also cited a lack of...

ABC15 Arizona - 3 weeks ago
Doctors at Blue Door Therapeutics say cannabis pills and patches can help with nausea and other opioid withdrawal symptoms, and another chemical in pot has anti-inflammatory and anti-anxiety...

The Pharma Letter (registration) - 3 hours ago
Parents will have to prove their children are vaccinated against diseases like measles, rubella and chickenpox when they enrol their children in nursery or preschool. Unlike in the USA, they will not...

Newsweek - 4 days ago
Russia's state-run consumer rights watchdog has warned its citizens who are planning to summer in Europe to get vaccinated against hepatitis A during LGBT events there. Citing World Health...

The Durango Herald - 3 days ago
Many students at schools in La Plata and Montezuma counties are not up-to-date on their vaccinations, according to statewide school data released by the Colorado Department of Public Health and...

OPB - 3 days ago
Demonstrators protest against imposition of vaccine requirements in Rome on June 11. A new law requires childhood vaccination against 12 diseases.and...

The Guardian - 3 hours ago
Oliver continued: “That is Donald Trump on the campaign trail raising doubts about vaccinations. And that is a sentiment that he's also expressed online, with a tweet reading 'tiny children...

Salon - 9 hours ago
Even anti-GMO partisans generally accept the premise that genetically modified crops have reduced insecticide use. For a moment I worried Tooker might be crazy, determined to hold me captive while he...

Slate Magazine - 3 days ago
Several years ago, a county government in Hawaii debated a measure to ban genetically modified crops on the island. The hearings highlighted the diverg...

EcoWatch - 2 hours ago
I realize that this sort of thing is a deliberate, if shameful, strategy of the agbiotech industry: "Let Nothing Go." As described in a document filed in a lawsuit by U.S. Right to Know:...

Southeast Missourian - 12 hours ago
The suburban Minneapolis headquarters of Syngenta in Minnetonka, Minnesota, is shown. A Kansas federal jury awarded nearly $218 million Friday to...

Reuters - 3 days ago
Syngenta ordered to pay $217.7 million to Kansas farmers in GMO corn case. FILE PHOTO: A Syngenta logo is pictured in their office in Singapore, February 12, 2016. REUTERS/Edgar Su/File Photo. By...

STAT - 5 days ago
Dr. Paul Offit, a pediatrician and vaccines expert at the University of Pennsylvania, said the criteria used by the court made no sense — and are similar to those used by vaccine injury...

Law360 (subscription) - 4 weeks ago
Law360, New York (May 30, 2017, 5:02 PM EDT) -- The U.S. Supreme Court said Tuesday it will not hear an appeal from parents seeking compensation for their son's permanent injuries they claim were...

Collective Evolution - 3 days ago
The case of vaccines”, by economist Dr. Gayle DeLong at Baruch College in New York, compares vaccines licensed before the passage of the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act (NCVIA) in 1986 with...

Jezebel - 3 hours ago
Minister Muhammad told Jezebel that he met Kennedy through a white anti-vaccine activist named Lucy Cole, who was working with the Vaccine Injury Awareness League, a group that frequently...

Boston Business Journal - 7 days ago
Sylvia Chin-Caplan sued Conway Homer PC, a small firm that specializes in vaccine injury cases, in Suffolk County Superior Court last week. Chin-Caplan served as a partner at the firm for 15 years...

Natural Resources Defense Council - 2 weeks ago
In response to an NRDC lawsuit, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency restored a rule to protect the public from mercury pollution.and...

Seeker - 2 weeks ago
Polar bears may be exposed to lower levels of mercury in their diets than in the past, but it appears to be because climate change is cha...and...

PR Newswire (press release) - 4 weeks ago
GÖTEBORG, Sweden, May 30, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Developing and transition countries stand to lose millions of dollars in earning potential every year due to ...and...

MIT News - 2 weeks ago
Much of the mercury pollution attributable to human activity is produced by coal-fired power plants and small-scale gold mining, with communities dependent on fishing and mining being among the...

Alaska Dispatch News - 6 days ago
Atmospheric and ocean currents carry mercury pollution, such as that produced by coal burning, over vast distances into the far north. Thawing permafrost also releases mercury into the environment....

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...

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...

NutraIngredients-usa.com - 2 yearss 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...

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...

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...