Mercury and other Health Topics in the News

CDA (California Dental Association) - 1 week 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 - 24 hours 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 - 4 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...

E&E News - 1 week ago
U.S. EPA this week published a significant rule to reduce mercury runoff from dental offices.and...

The Hindu - 8 hours ago
The 'medical-man', in contrast, fell in love with a shiny, fluid metal called mercury. From fairness lotion to rejuvenating potion, from antiseptic balm to dental amalgam, from thermometer to...

Gloucester Daily Times - 1 day 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,...

KTTS - 3 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....

OzarksFirst.com - 3 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...

KVUE - 4 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...

KY3 - 3 days ago
Battlefield's water district made a final decision on it last night, deciding to get rid of it once and for all, but the debate is far from over. Signs all across the city of Battlefield are...

WAFF-TV ... - 5 days ago
The FBI Birmingham Citizens Academy Alumni Association, the FBI and the DEA are hosting a screening of “Chasing the Dragon, the Life of an Opiate Addict,” a ...and...

The Cannabist - 1 week ago
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. — New Mexico's top health official has rejected state Medical Cannabis Advisory Board recommendations to add opiate dependence and Alzheimer's disease to the list of...

New York Daily News - 2 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...

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...

Juneau Empire (subscription) - 4 weeks ago
... person working through recovery either. Doctors at the Rainforest Recovery Center (RRC) have expanded their repertoire for treating opiate addiction, adding a treatment style this spring that...

Newsweek - 2 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...

NPR - 1 day ago
A tough new law means parents who don't vaccinate their children against a dozen diseases will face steep fines — and even risk losing custody. Italy has ...and...

The Durango Herald - 1 day 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...

Ironton Tribune - 3 days ago
A healthy student is a better student. Healthy students have fewer absences, show more engagement and are better learners in the classroom, all leading to ...and...

KSHB - 4 days ago
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - On Tuesday, June 20, area vet clinics had a city-wide flu vaccination day for dogs. Zeek and Zeus are two of many dogs getting their dog flu vaccination at Hawthorne Animal...

Slate Magazine - 1 day 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...

Business Insider - 2 days ago
Dennis Gonsalves, a plant pathologist at Cornell University, wanted to vaccinate Hawaiian papaya crops from a virus using genetic engineering.and...

Bloomberg - 1 day ago
More than 7,000 Kansas farmers claimed Syngenta rushed its GMO seed to market before getting approval from China to export grain there. In 2013, China stopped shipments after calling the corn...

GOOD Magazine - 2 days ago
Adding more fuel to the GMO versus organic food fire, the documentary “Food Evolution,” opening June 23 in NYC and expanding to additional cities in...

CBC.ca - 1 day ago
GMO fish not part of original plan. AquaBounty plans to keep broodstock and eggs and to rear fully grown fish at the facility. The company had originally intended to handle only non-GMO stock in...

STAT - 3 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 - 4 weeks ago
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 caused ...and...

Collective Evolution - 1 day 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...

vaccine ... - 2 days ago
Vaccine inventor says people should have to be vaccinated, just like they have to wear seatbelts.and...

Boston Business Journal - 5 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 - 1 week 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...

Truth-Out - 8 hours ago
Case in point: Jeff Holmstead sabotaged the EPA's efforts to require mercury pollution control technology at each US coal plant. After similar rules were used to reduce mercury emissions from...

MIT News - 1 week 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...

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 - 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...

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...

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...

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...