water-safety
2 stories tagged "water-safety"
Metabolic & Weight
What Fluoride Does Once It Gets Past the Teeth
As Washington fights over whether to keep fluoridating tap water, the sharpest evidence on childhood fluoride and cardiovascular risk comes from places where the dose dwarfs anything out of a U.S. tap. The whole argument is about how much.
Infectious DiseaseA 16-month-old died at an Arkansas splash pad. Its chlorinator had been broken for a month.
A new global synthesis on free-living amoebae explains why a single bad month at a public splash pad is enough to kill a child, and why the CDC's existing protocol would have caught it.