Mercury and other Health Topics in the News

Mondaq News Alerts (registration) - 4 days ago
These specialty practices are not expected to engage in the practice of amalgam restorations or removals, and are thus not expected to have any wastewater discharges containing dental amalgam. In...

PR Newswire (press release) - 4 weeks ago
Consumers are becoming increasingly aware of the toxicity of mercury in dentistry and the environment. TALKInternational.com suggests consumers ask their ...and...

Bloomberg BNA - 3 days ago
The entry into force of the Minamata Convention on Mercury Aug.and...

Inter Press Service - 3 weeks ago
In Norway and Sweden, dental amalgam is no longer in use, while it is being phased out in Japan, Finland and the Netherlands. In Mauritius and EU nations, it is banned from use on children. Denmark...

satPRnews (press release) - 2 days ago
Dental amalgam are alloys consisting of liquid mercury and metal alloy mixtures of copper, zinc, silver, gold etc. which are used to fill cavities caused by tooth ...and...

Sun Sentinel - 3 days ago
When the city of Boynton Beach recently completed its new water plant, it sparked an outcry from some dentists, who noticed the city still hasn't resumed fluoride treatments. Boynton Utilities...

Johnson City Press (subscription) - 3 days ago
Mayor Kelly Wolfe said that the issue is likely put to rest for now with the unanimous vote halting the process of fluoride removal, which would have occurred 30 days after the letters were sent to...

Johnson City Press (subscription) - 2 days ago
Calls for removing fluoride from the public water supply have come up from time to time in other municipalities, where elected officials have also relied on the scientific facts to guide their way....

Meadville Tribune - 2 days ago
“This is not the forum for banging the drum on the fluoride issue. The forum is with the Meadville Area Water Authority,” Alizzeo continued. “The water board would not hear us,” Knapp...

WCYB - 5 days ago
The Jonesborough Board of Mayor and Aldermen voted unanimously Monday to keep fluoride in the town's drinking water. According to Mayor Kelly Wolfe, the board considered community discussion and...

cleveland.com - 3 days ago
Pawley Bornstein, the former host of The Maxwell Show on WMMS and WNCX, talks about overcoming his opiate addiction.and...

Los Angeles Times - 3 days ago
Don't blame the nation's surgeons for an opiate-abuse crisis that now claims 142 lives daily in the United States. New research suggests that patients leaving the ...and...

Lima Ohio - 11 hours ago
Whaley said she is running for governor because she feels the state has a lack of serious leadership in the face of opiate addiction, educational support, and unemployment, among other issues....

MARIJUANA POLITICS - 4 days ago
President Trump's Opioid Commission, chaired by Governor Chris Christie, has released their findings. The report calls for the president to declare a national ...and...

Tuscaloosa News (subscription) - 22 hours ago
Now, research tracing the origins of opiate addiction has circled back to a well-worn observation: that physicians sometimes adopt treatment practices with little to no proof that they work — and...

Sun Sentinel - 2 days ago
August is in full swing, and kids all across Florida are loading their backpacks and lunchboxes for a new and exciting school year. Palm Beach County classes ...and...

OregonLive.com - 4 days ago
With summer winding down, it's time for parents to think about vaccinations. Oregon requires immunization or an exemption. Otherwise, children will be...

UPMatters.com - 1 hour ago
I Vaccinate, designed with input from Michigan mothers, provides the facts parents need to make informed decisions about vaccinations. Most parents today have never seen first-hand the devastating...

Frederick News Post (subscription) - 1 day ago
The Health Department also provides resources for families who lack insurance altogether, or whose plans don't cover the full range of vaccinations recommended or required by the state of...

6abc.com - 3 days ago
Hospitals, pediatricians, clinics step up school vaccinations: Ali Gorman reports during Action News at 5 p.m. on August 17, 2017. (WPVI). WPVI. By Ali Gorman, R.N.. Thursday, August 17, 2017...

Organic Authority - 2 days ago
Canadians have already consumed nearly five tons of GMO salmon, according to a report released last Friday by AquaBounty, the maker of AquAdvantage salmon. Canadian supermarkets have been stocking...

Seeking Alpha - 5 days ago
GMO is out with a note on the S&P that reads like the warning label on a pack of cigarettes. I've hit the high points in this piece and provided a link to the full note. Additionally, there...

The Hill - 1 week ago
Consumer advocates hailed the 2016 law establishing nationwide GMO labeling standards. But now those advocates and many lawmakers are worried the Trump administration will approve weak standards....

American Council on Science and Health - 4 days ago
Science writers have long suspected that the anti-GMO movement is linked to the anti-vaccine movement. Indeed, both are predicated upon one of the biggest myths in modern society: "Natural is...

Food & Wine - 1 week ago
Genetically modified salmon has hit Canadian grocery store shelves. It's the first time a GMO seafood (or animal, for that matter) has been made available to the public. So far, consumers have...

ModernMedicine - 6 days ago
The National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (VICP) was created in the late 1980s to provide a no-fault alternative to traditional legal claims which, at the time, officials feared could threaten...

The Texas Observer - 2 weeks ago
For Schlegel, the fight is personal. She says her 16-year-old daughter, Ashlyn, who is diagnosed with autism, is permanently disabled due to a vaccine injury. The Centers for Disease Control and...

Collective Evolution - 4 days ago
... the vaccines we tested, MMR stood out as consistently having the highest level of glyphosate contamination. This fact may help explain why the MMR vaccine, which contains neither mercury nor...

Babble (blog) - 4 weeks ago
But latching onto tragic stories and declaring them a result of vaccine injury when you don't know the facts is disturbing on many levels. My daughter's illness is not fodder for your...

Causation or No Causation, That Is the Question. - 4 weeks ago
In order to encourage the continued production of vaccines, Congress passed the National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act, which set up the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program (NVICP) in 1988 to...

New Atlas - 1 week ago
Industrial activity like coal-burning and mining has greatly increased the amount of mercury in our environment. Scientists have now developed a...

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel - 2 weeks ago
Air monitoring stations as far away as northern Wisconsin tipped off state regulators that something was amiss. The readings on equipment at five locations revealed a sudden spike in mercury...

R & D Magazine - 2 weeks ago
Researchers from Flinders University in Australia have developed a method to use waste cooking oil and Sulphur to extract the neurotoxin mercury from...

Xinhua - 4 days ago
BEIJING, Aug. 16 (Xinhua) -- China will take measures to reduce mercury pollution as an international anti-mercury treaty entered into force Wednesday, according to an official statement. China will...

CleanTechnica - 3 weeks ago
The press release for the study provides more: “Obrist recently completed two years of field research in the tundra, tracking the origin and path of mercury pollution. Working from an observation...

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...