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Help Seize This Opportunity to Abolish Mercury Fillings

New Opportunities to Phase Out Amalgam This spring, an unexpected — but highly welcome — development compels Consumers for Dental Choice to search for additional revenue. Several African nations submitted a proposal to amend the Minamata Convention to add a 2030 phase-out date for dental amalgam. The proposal also adds common-sense measures to facilitate this… Read More »

Decrease Your Risk of Alzheimer’s With This

More than 6 million U.S. adults have Alzheimer’s disease. By 2050, this number is expected to increase to nearly 13 million.1 Despite its growing prevalence, there is no known cure for Alzheimer’s disease and conventional treatments are lacking. So, researchers with the Cleveland Clinic analyzed 1,600 approved drugs in the hopes that one of them… Read More »

Is This Bathroom Staple Dangerous?

This article was previously published February 19, 2019, and has been updated with new information. According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention,1 40% of children between the ages of 3 and 6 use potentially dangerous amounts of toothpaste. The CDC and American Dental Association (ADA) recommend using no more than a pea-sized… Read More »

Chew on This: Is There Plastic in That Gum?

Society has a dangerous addiction to plastics and your exposure now includes chewing it.1 Several of the chemicals found in the production of plastic compounds are known to act as endocrine disruptors. Phthalates are one of those types of chemicals;2 they are also found in chewing gum. During the fetal and neonatal periods,3 babies are… Read More »

“Blood test finds 50 types of cancer” – we’ve been down this path before

Shoddy, incomplete, fawning news coverage of screening tests is one of the most clearly established problems in health news coverage – something HealthNewsReview.org has revealed countless times over the past 15 years. A public relations news release 22 days ago – from “a healthcare company whose mission is to detect cancer early” – touted study… Read More »