Mercury in Medical News

FDA Ruling on Mercury Fillings Falls Short

New FDA guidelines fail to protect pregnant women and children from threat of "silver" dental fillings WASHINGTON, July 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- In a disappointing move, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today did an about face in issuing a final regulation classi...

FDA Calls for Stricter Controls on Mercury Fillings

But notes dental devices pose no great risk to most people; consumer organization aghast at ruling TUESDAY, July 28 (HealthDay News) -- U.S. health authorities on Tuesday placed tighter safety controls on the use of mercury dental fillings. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration wil...

FDA Warnings on Mercury Tooth Fillings Expected Today: New Regulation Result of Lawsuit Settled Last Year

WASHINGTON, July 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Food and Drug Administration is expected to issue a new regulation today calling for special controls on the placement of mercury tooth fillings. Until now, dentists who used amalgam have not had to disclose the type of materials us...

Omega-3 Fatty Acids Key to Fetal Development - Possible Mercury Contamination Concerns in Some Fish Oil Avoided With Plant-based DHA in PreNexa(R) Prenatal Vitamins

MAPLE GROVE, Minn., June 25 /PRNewswire/ -- Leading experts specifically recommend Docosahexaenoic acid (DHA) as a key omega-3 fatty acid for prenatal development(1, 2, 3). DHA, derived from plants or fish, is consumed in the form of food or nutritional supplements. However, there is increasing ...

Shareholders Challenge Danaher/Kerr to Phase Out Mercury Tooth Fillings

Dominican Sisters of Hope, Others Question the Continuing Use of Mercury WASHINGTON, May 4 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Dominican Sisters of Hope, supported by Consumers for Dental Choice and the Mercury Policy Project, will present a resolution calling on the Danaher (NYSE: DHR ) co...

Women in Coastal Areas Have Higher Mercury Levels

Study finds increase tied to income, ethnicity, types of seafood consumed MONDAY, Jan. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Where a woman lives, how much she makes for a living, and her ethnicity may all be linked to the amount of mercury in her blood, a new survey says. The report, published in...

CU Statement on FDA Position on Mercury From Fish Consumption

YONKERS, N.Y., Dec. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Consumers Union is deeply disturbed that the Food and Drug Administration is contemplating relaxing its fish-consumption advice for vulnerable populations such as women of child-bearing age, pregnant women, nursing mothers and infants. The agency's...

FDA's Proposed Mercury Fish Advice Based on Flawed Science, Say MD and Anti-Mercury Advocates

WASHINGTON, Dec. 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Today, a parent of a mercury-poisoning victim joined a medical doctor and an advocacy group in refuting the FDA's proposal to stop warning pregnant women and children about exposure risks from mercury in fish. "We've known for years that me...

Elements for a UN Global Framework on Mercury Agreed to

NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct. 10 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Public interest advocates(1) welcomed the results of a global meeting convened to make decisions on the threats posed by mercury to human health and environment. On 6-10 October 2008, the 2nd UNEP(2) Open Ended Working Group (OEWG2) on Mercury ...

New Evidence Highlights Dangers of Mercury Toxicity in Fish

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Dr. Jane Hightower -- widely acknowledged as the first US physician to recognize low-level mercury poisoning in patients who regularly consume certain types of fish -- today released new evidence showing that the FDA has failed to inform and protect the pu...

To Reduce Mercury Pollution, 'Dentists need a mandatory requirement,' According to US House Oversight Report; Mercury Group Concurs

WASHINGTON, Sept. 11 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- A US House Government Oversight subcommittee released a 33-page report yesterday indicating that 'Dentists need a mandatory requirement' to reduce mercury emissions. The Mercury Policy Project welcomed the findings, after having testified at two ...

Earthjustice/EIP Report: Dangerous Mercury Pollution From Unregulated Cement Kilns in U.S. About Twice as High as Levels Previously Projected by EPA

EPA Ignored Problem For 10+ Years Even Though Some Kilns Emit More Mercury Than Power Plants; Report Focuses on Cement Kilns in AL, CA, IA, IL, MD, MI, MT, NY, OR, SC, TX and WA. WASHINGTON, July 23 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- For more than a decade after Congress told it to curb dangerous ...

Congress Called on to Hold Dental Mercury Polluters Accountable at U.S. House Oversight Hearing

WASHINGTON, July 8 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- At a U.S. House Government Oversight Subcommittee Hearing today, a mercury watchdog group called on Congress to stop dental mercury pollution by phasing out amalgam, requiring dentists to install amalgam separators, and holding manufacturers of ama...

US FDA Admits Risks of Mercury Dental Fillings, Settles Lawsuit

Statement of Michael Bender, Plaintiff WASHINGTON, June 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "After 32 years of delay, the Food and Drug Administration has finally agreed to comply with the law and set a date to classify mercury amalgam as a substance that poses a health risk to pregnant women and u...

Amber Valletta on Preventing Mercury Exposure

WASHINGTON, May 9 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Oceana, an international ocean conservation group based in Washington, D.C., has been working to prevent seafood contamination for many years. Consuming big fish high on the food chain is the primary way that we are exposed to mercury, a heavy metal...

Should You Worry About Mercury Poisoning? Find out in the March Issue of Natural Solutions - Now on Newsstands

BOULDER, Colo., March 6 /PRNewswire/ -- In response to recent news about the high levels of mercury found in fish, the March 2008 issue of Natural Solutions: Vibrant Health, Balanced Living reveals the types of fish Americans should avoid, including tuna, shellfish, and river-dwelling fish. Th...

Scientists find mercury threatens next generation of loons

A long-term study by the Wildlife Conservation Society, the BioDiversity Research Institute, and other organizations has found and confirmed that environmental mercurymuch of which comes from human-generated emissionsis impacting both the health and reproductive success of common loons in the Nort...

EPA Plan to Evade Required Cuts in Mercury Pollution Challenged in Court by States, Tribes, Health and Environmental Groups

WASHINGTON, Dec. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Fourteen states and dozens of Native American tribes, public health and environmental groups, and organizations representing registered nurses and physicians appeared in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia today seeking to overtu...

Environmental Impacts of Dental Mercury Focus of U.S. House Oversight Hearing Wednesday

Hearing will show that dental mercury uses contribute to high mercury levels in fish Americans consume Testimony will also show, for the first time, that dental mercury air emissions may be more than five times higher than recent US EPA estimates WASHINGTON, Nov.12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ ...

New Fish Advice Throws Baby Out With the Bath Water, Says Mercury Watchdog Group

WASHINGTON, Oct. 3 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The following is a statement by Michael Bender, director of The Mercury Policy Project: "To their credit, the US Food and Drug Administration and its various expert groups, and EPA scientists worked very hard over a considerable number of years to...

Most comprehensive study of mercury in dental fillings begins

The presence of mercury in dental amalgams, or fillings, is relatively common knowledge; however, whether its presence affects the neurological system is a debate that has been ongoing for 150 years. A new study beginning in less than a week will for the first time study whether prenatal exposur...

Study Finds High-Fructose Corn Syrup Contains Mercury

Half of batches tested positive, third of popular sweetened products showed traces MONDAY, Jan. 26 (HealthDay News) -- Almost half of tested samples of commercial high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) contained mercury, which was also found in nearly a third of 55 popular brand-name food and...

Ongoing Tests Show Kona Kampachi(R) is Rich in Omega-3s With No Detectable Mercury

KONA, Hawaii, Feb. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Recent reports of high mercury content in tuna sampled from New York City sushi restaurants have caused considerable confusion among seafood-lovers about the health benefits versus the safety of the fish they eat. Now consumers can be reassured that they c...

A Patients Right to Know: 'Silver Fillings' are 50% Mercury

Philadelphia City Council to Vote on Measure Thursday WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 /PRNewswire/ -- Did you know that the silver colored fillings in your mouth are actually composed of 50% MERCURY, a known neurotoxin? This information should be posted at your dentist office and currently is not...

EU Move Against Mercury Should Be Adopted in India: NGO

A Delhi-based environmental group Friday welcomed the European Union (EU) Parliament's resolution to ban mercury trade which causes environmental pollution, and urged the Indian government to do likewise. Toxics Link and other green groups hailed the EU resolution on Wednesday. The...

US States Get Ready to Fight Mercury Pollution

New York and six other Northeastern states in the US are stepping up their efforts to force the federal government to enact tougher standards of mercury emissions.// Throughout the Northeast, mercury contamination has become a growing health concern. Mercury is a metal that occurs naturally. ...

Ex-workers Ask HLL to Accept Liability for Mercury Deaths

Kodaikanal (Tamil Nadu): The death of a 47-year-old man who had worked for a Hindustan Lever thermometer factory// for 18 years brought out hundreds of ex-employees, who had also been exposed to toxic mercury, to the streets. P. Natarajan passed away Thursday, prompting more than 500 protesto...

Link between Mercury based Vaccines and Autism Discredited

Recent research by Canadian scientists has revealed that vaccines that contain mercury do not increase risk of autism//. McGill University Health Center scientists examined patterns between the developmental disorder and vaccines in 28,000 children and reported their findings in the journal Pedi...

Pregnant women advised against canned tuna due to mercury poisoning!

In order to safeguard the health of pregnant women canned tuna to be avoided in diet. The reason being mercury levels in it! The actions and steps are being //taken after Government tests investigated canned tuna and in found as much mercury as white tuna. Highlighting the effects on hea...

Rise in Mercury Levels in Supermarket Fish

Washington state Health Department survey reported an increased level of mercury in some halibut and Pacific red snapper sold at Washington supermarkets. // There were state wide tests conducted in the fish from grocery stores. They said that children and women of child-bearing age should eat only ...

Fish Consumption Results In Higher Mercury Levels

The mercury levels of about 20% of the women who have attained the childbearing age are reported to be unsafe, according to a study conducted across the US involving several thousand women. //In the case of Chicago, it was found to be even higher at 25% for women belonging to the 16 years to 49 yea...

Dangers Of Mercury

On the final day of the Eighth International Conference on Mercury as a Global Pollutant, the "conference declaration" was released in which it was noted that Mercury pollution// can threaten the health of people, fish, and wildlife everywhere from industrial sites to remote corners of the planet, ...

Video: American Dental Association Statement: Food and Drug Administration Action on Dental Amalgam

...t options to help patients make educated decisions regarding their dental care." Dental amalgam is a cavity-filling material made by combining mercury with other metals such as silver, copper and tin. Numerous scientific studies conducted over the past several decades, including two large clinical tr...

Sweetwater Announces Trademarks of State-of-the-Art Healthy Drinking Water Purification Systems

... assistance with the unit and with the installation." Rainwater needs to be purified because it contains herbicides and pesticides along with mercury from coal plants. The Kitchen Defender effectively removes these contaminants. The Kitchen Defender is also used to purify surface water such as str...

Online Voting Begins for Ford Customer Service Division's Second Annual Funny Car Design Contest to Support Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation

...iles across six continents. With more than 213,000 employees and about 90 plants worldwide, the company's wholly owned brands include Ford, Lincoln, mercury and Volvo. The company provides financial services through Ford Motor Credit Company. For more information regarding Ford's products, please visit ...

Comic Strip Delivers Message on Diabetes Health

...n more than 200 U.S. newspapers, including The Washington Post, the Miami Herald, The Philadelphia Inquirer, The Dallas Morning News, and the San Jose mercury News. The main character of the daily strip is 15-year-old Baldo Bermudez. He is joined by his caring father Sergio, his eight-year-old sister Gracie,...

Michigan Among Top Three E-Prescribing States in the Nation, Led by Automotive Company Initiative

... automobiles across six continents. With about 205,000 employees and about 90 plants worldwide, the company's automotive brands include Ford, Lincoln, mercury and Volvo. The company provides financial services through Ford Motor Credit Company. For more information regarding Ford's products, please visit w...

Mercury in Mackenzie River delta dramatically higher than previously believed

...Delta have found a dramatically higher delivery of mercury from the Mackenzie River to the Arctic Ocean than ...or three months and discovered the total amount of mercury exported from the river during that three-month period was equal to an entire year's worth of mercury calculated in previous studies. Graydon's rese...

Microlife WatchBP Invites Medical Professionals for a 'New way through together' at ESH Meeting

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Landmark USGS study

... for the first time the process in which increased mercury emissions from human sources across the globe, and...minate tuna and other seafood. Because much of the mercury that enters the North Pacific comes from the atmos...ave predicted an additional 50 percent increase in mercury in the Pacific by 2050 if...