Fluoridated drinking water has come under fire in recent days, targeted by local activists and Cabinet member Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Medical consensus says fluoride is harmless at levels found in drinking water and helps prevent tooth decay. Opposition to ...

Utah appears to be the first state ready to put a full ban on fluoride in public water systems under a bill that doesn’t allow cities or communities to decide whether to add the cavity-preventing mineral.

State lawmakers skeptical of federal guidance on fluoride in water are proposing limits or bans on community fluoridation, a decades-long practice credited with reductions in dental decay across the country.

As fluoride skeptic Robert F. Kennedy Jr. starts his first full week as Health and Human Services Secretary, debate over community water fluoridation simmers.

Lincoln County commissioners recently voted to discontinue the use of fluoride in the county’s drinking water. Lincoln became the second county to eliminate fluoride from its water supply, after Union County commissioners voted to ban its use last year, The Charlotte Observer reported.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has spent decades as an outsider railing against federal health authorities. His Make America Healthy Again movement is based largely on undermining the scientific and public

Analysis: From the newly confirmed Secretary of Health Robert F Kennedy to Winston Peters, why are a few fringe political voices empowered to put the health of so many children at risk? Jonathan Milne reports.

Robert F. Kennedy Jr has been confirmed as the US health secretary. Here’s why this is bad news for America and the world.

With the backing of Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson, a Senate Republican on Thursday filed a wide-ranging bill that would bar public water systems from adding fluoride to water supplies.

Fluoridated drinking water has come under fire in recent days, targeted by local activists and Cabinet member Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Medical consensus says fluoride is harmless at levels found in ...