U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and conservatives across the country have been working to ban ...

In a May 2025 national poll by the Consumer Healthcare Products Association in cooperation with the American Dental Association (ADA), more than 4 out of 5 survey takers said they are familiar with ...

The bill’s primary sponsor, Council Member Jim Gennaro, is close with Robert F. Kennedy Jr., but said the Health and Human ...

Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Commissioner Marty Makary warned that the chemicals making up the fluoride being used in drinking water could be ‘carpet-bombing’ the organs of American children.

Fluoride is found in everyday items from toothpaste to drinking water, but the U.S. Food and Drug Administration plans to take a closer look at how the mineral is used in children’s products. The FDA ...

Dental care costs are estimated to increase nearly $46 billion over five years due to the removal of fluoride from public water systems, with California, Florida, and Texas seeing the highest total ...

Every time we turn on the water tap, we’re doing more than quenching thirst — we’re protecting smiles. For generations, community water fluoridation has quietly and powerfully helped Maryland children ...

The Trump administration is inching closer to banning fluoride tablets and drops often prescribed to kids who don’t have access to fluoridated drinking water and are at high risk for mouths full of ...

The Oklahoma State Department of Health scrubbed all mention of its Community Water Fluoridation Program ahead of Gov. Kevin Stitt's order to review a state policy on recommending that water systems ...

A letter to the editor in the Monday edition applauded the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ decision regarding biology to make a case about gender identity and safety. Yet in doing so, the letter ...

A Michigan city must submit plans to state regulators for adding fluoride back to its water after not alerting authorities or the public that it was pulling the mineral from its water supply — 10 ...