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Published March 16. 2023 02:45PM For more than seven decades, despite the proven benefits of water fluoridation of water systems in stemming tooth decay and other oral hygiene issues, the controversy persists. Along with the suspicions of COVID-19 vaccines and ...

In a recent study published in the journal Toxicology Letters, researchers discuss the effect(s) of fluoride exposure on the human microbiome. Study: Does fluoride exposure impact on the human microbiome? Image Credit: Photozero / Shutterstock.com The toxicology of fluoride Community ...

If you were to walk into a dentist’s office, you might find a great divide between people who are against the use of fluoride treatments and those who wish to have them. Advertising Policy Cleveland Clinic is a non-profit academic ...

A federal health agency has agreed to publicly release scientific analyses about the safety of fluoride in drinking water, which will allow a federal district court to lift a protective order that has shielded the information from release. Judge Edward ...

Toronto boasts some of the cleanest drinking water around, but a group is loudly campaigning to have a common additive removed from our taps, citing that their rights are infringed by the city's fluoridation of its water supply. A blogTO ...

The public may never see a federal health agency’s conclusions about whether fluoride can harm children’s IQ when consumed in drinking water, according to newly filed documents in a federal district court. The director of the National Toxicology Program (NTP), ...

American Fluoridation Society comments on this draft report WASHINGTON, Nov. 21, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Groups opposed to water fluoridation are in federal court, citing an outdated draft report about children’s intelligence (IQ) by the U.S. National Toxicology Program (NTP) to ...

Calgary is on track to have fluoride back in its water supply by the summer of 2024, the city says, but advocates for fluoridation are questioning why it’s taking so long. A year ago, council officially voted to reintroduce fluoride ...

Eight cities and towns in Massachusetts have had to stop adding sodium fluoride to their municipal water supplies after running out of the compound, which is used to prevent tooth decay. Health officials say some of the suspensions have been ...

Enlarge Getty | MediaNews Group The longtime water superintendent for a small town in Vermont has resigned in protest after local officials ordered him to restore the town’s water to the state’s standard for fluoride levels—which he had been secretly ...

The water superintendent for Richmond, Vt., resigned this week after admitting that he had been lowering the fluoride levels in the town’s water below state guidelines for more than a decade. In a five-page resignation letter dated Oct. 17, the ...

Conspiracies of fluoride in tap water range from claims of ill-health effects to fears of foreign powers working to weaken U.S. citizens’ bodies.Photo: ALASTAIR PIKE/AFP (Getty Images) A small-town water manager had some pretty out-there ideas about fluoride in the ...

A person holds a cup under tap water and lets the water spill out. Conspiracies of fluoride in tap water range from claims of ill-health effects to fears of foreign powers working to weaken U.S. citizens’ bodies. A small-town water ...

A town employee who quietly lowered the fluoride in a Vermont community’s drinking water for years has resigned — and is asserting that the levels had actually been low for much longer than believed. Richmond water superintendent Kendall Chamberlin disclosed ...

This article was originally published by Votebeat, a nonprofit news organization covering local election administration and voting access.FREDERICKSBURG — Laura Pressley and three other people huddled inside a Fredericksburg courtroom Monday, bowing their heads, closing their eyes, holding hands, and ...

Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. This coverage is made possible through Votebeat, a nonpartisan news organization covering local election administration and voting access. The article ...

FREDERICKSBURG — Laura Pressley and three other people huddled inside a Fredericksburg courtroom Monday, bowing their heads, closing their eyes, holding hands, and beginning to pray in hushed voices. “In Jesus’ name, Amen,” the group whispered, just moments before the ...

Childhood exposure to fluoride through public tap water isn’t associated with any emotional or behavioural issues, nor any negative executive functioning in adolescent years, according to a new study from Australia. Researchers looked at more than 2,600 children in a ...

Childhood exposure to fluoride through public tap water isn’t associated with any emotional or behavioural issues, nor any negative executive functioning in adolescent years, according to a new study from Australia. Researchers looked at more than 2,600 children in a ...

The civil servant maintaining the fluoride levels in Richmond, Vermont’s water supply was quietly lowering the levels for years as he believed in long-disproven and discredited conspiracy theories. Kendall Chamberlin, Richmond’s water and wastewater superintendent, claims to have had the ...