In our survey, labelling information was not consistent. Some companies listed the amount of fluoride in ppm and some in percentages, some in both and some not at all. The British Dental Associati ...
Q My 17-month-old has what my dentist calls ‘baby-bottle mouth’. She has lost most of the enamel from one tooth and has cavities in three others. The dentist says it’s due to nighttime feeding (she is breastfed).
Obese people who take an appetite suppressant for more than three months increase by 30 times their chances of developing primary pulmonary hypertension, a usually fatal condition affecting the ar ...
Ever since scientists saw, 70 years ago, what they thought was a link between fluoride in the water supply and a lower incidence of tooth decay, fluoride - in toothpaste, mouth-washes, tablets and drinking water - has been the most popular...
Avian flu (H5N1) is predicted to be the next pandemic, claiming up to 7.4 million lives, according to the World Health Organization. The virus was discovered around 50 years ago - but scientists reckon that it will cross over into humans within the...
If at first you don't succeed. . . Governments around the world are taking a dim view of flu vaccines, partly because they're expensive, but also because there is not enough evidence to show they ...
The Hepatitis B vaccine has been linked with the kidney disease glomerulonephritis. The Lancet (23 January 1993) reports the case of a 21 year old man who developed the condition after a third boo ...
The issue of artificial fluoridation of water is complicated by the high fluoride levels in the diet and in beverages. Since World War II the use of both organic and inorganic fluoride compounds i ...
* Tranquillisers
* Beta-blockers
* Steroids such as prednisolone
* Epilepsy drugs such as Zonegran
It's got to be worth a gamble ...