March 20, 2017 Studies shed light on opioid exposures among US children and young adults Between 2000 and 2015, poison control centers in the United States received 188,468 calls about prescription opioid exposures in children and teens, a new study finds.
March 17, 2017 Man accused of posing as dentist allegedly cooked meth in office A California man is accused of practicing dentistry without a license in an unsanitary office where he allegedly cooked meth.
March 15, 2017 Autistic boy dies after routine dental procedure, report says A Washington family is seeking answers after their 4-year-old son died Friday during a seemingly routine dental procedure that reportedly involved a shot of anesthesia.
March 2, 2017 Lawsuit claims toddler's fatal dental procedure was part of Medicaid billing scheme The family of a Texas toddler who died during a dentist appointment has filed a wrongful death lawsuit alleging that the procedure was unnecessarily performed as part of a money-making scheme.
February 24, 2017 Pregnant opioid users need treatment, not jail, pediatricians say Every 25 minutes, a drug-addicted baby is born in the U.S. To try to protect the youngest victims of the nation's opioid epidemic, Tennessee enacted a law that sent new mothers to jail for substance abuse, while other states employ existing child-abuse laws to punish prenatal drug users and remove their children.
February 22, 2017 Opioids unnecessary for dental work, doc says From 1999 to 2010, fatalities from opioid overdose have quadrupled with many of these cases involving teens, according to a JAMA study.
February 12, 2017 Can banking baby teeth treat diabetes? When she was just 11 months old, Billie Sue Wozniak’s daughter Juno was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, an autoimmune disease that affects 1.25 million people and approximately 200,000 children under age 20 in the United States.
February 1, 2017 Tooth infection leads to 26-year-old California dad's death A California long-haul trucker died early Monday after a tooth infection spread to his lungs, Fox 40 reported.
January 24, 2017 Baltimore mom outraged after third grader comes home missing 3 teeth Shanda Flemming thought she was signing a permission slip for her son to get a routine dental cleaning at school, but was shocked when he came home missing three teeth.
January 23, 2017 France to review food whitener additive for health risks The French government has ordered a review of the safety of titanium dioxide as a food additive after a scientific study released on Friday found health effects in animals that consumed the substance.
