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Residents voted to stop adding fluoride to their drinking water.
But more than a year later, the town still can’t act on that decision.
Somerset, Massachusetts, is waiting on state lawmakers for permission to end fluoridation — even after the measure passed the state Senate.
If the House doesn’t act by Jan. 5, the bill could expire.
The dispute is raising a bigger question: How much control should a community have over what goes into its own water supply?
More than $24 million in federal lobbying. Nearly $2.5 million in political contributions. And 139 current members of Congress who received money from the companies’ PACs.
The report also raises questions about whether their ownership interests were fully disclosed in federal lobbying filings.
How much influence can that kind of money buy — and what does it mean for the policies shaping America’s food and farms?
Millions of microscopic plastic particles could be ending up in something parents give their babies every day.
A new review of 27 studies found microplastics & traces of chemicals, including phthalates, bisphenols & PFAS, in infant formula, plastic bottles and feeding products.
Researchers have not established that these exposures cause harm — but the findings are raising urgent questions about what the youngest, most vulnerable children may be consuming without anyone realizing it.
What should parents know?
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The email exchange has never been made public before. It appears in a 270-page batch of records recently released by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to U.S. Right to Know in response to a request made under the Freedom of Information Act.
Eleven weeks before COVID-19 emerged, an NIH scientist proposed engineering a coronavirus spike protein to make it more infectious.
So why are the emails drawing renewed attention in the debate over COVID-19’s origins?
Read what the documents actually show.
Andrea Shaw’s defense team has asked a court to dismiss the murder charges, alleging prosecutorial misconduct. Her attorneys say the grand jury wasn’t told that the coroner and examining pathologists listed the children’s causes of death as undetermined.
What protections should families have when pesticides are used near their homes, schools and water supplies?
The bigger question: Do families really know what they may be exposed to?
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Your child is already sedated for a medical procedure. Then comes another decision: Should they receive a vaccine while still under anesthesia?
What parents should know before saying yes.
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Pediatricians and health advocates criticized the program’s branding and questioned the depth of informed consent, given that stressed parents face time constraints during preoperative discussions.