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(MedPage Today) -- Louisiana state health officials are warning patients about potential dangers of using tap water for sinus irrigation after two patients died of Naegleria fowleri infection.

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WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Environmental Protection Agency is setting the first drinking water standard for a toxic rocket fuel ingredient linked to thyroid problems in pregnant women and young children, the Obama administration is to announce on Wednesday....

New York may be putting too much fluoride in its drinking water, a new federal review has found - and one councilman hopes that will prompt the city to stop using it altogether.

Four decades after New York started adding fluoride to its water, a city councilman armed with new research is launching a campaign to stop the practice.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday it would likely tighten drinking water standards to address potential health risks of a carcinogen recently detected in the tap water of 31 cities across the country....

A chemical called chromium-6 thats probably carcinogenic has been found in the tap water in 31 out of the 35 American cities tested.

A new analysis showing the presence of a probable carcinogen in the tap water of 31 cities across the country, including the District and Bethesda, has raised questions about what consumers in those communities can do to reduce their exposure.

In 1908, Jersey City, N.J., became the first city in the United States to chlorinate its municipal tap water.

Other municipalities rapidly followed suit with water filtration and purification systems, and the United States witnessed what were arguably the most dramatic and rapid improvements in...

I bought an Oral Breeze Redipik oral irrigator a year ago. Previously, I had used Water Pik products for more than 20 years. The failure component in the Water Piks was always the hose, which would become brittle and fatigued and would break, thus...