Texas Agriculture Secretary Sid Miller wants the Legislature to ban fluoridation of public water systems. He sees fluoride in water as a restriction ...

Democratic Sens. Martin Heinrich and Ben Ray Luján are pressuring new Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy ...

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 ...

A two-day meeting aimed at raising awareness among policymakers and the public about rare diseases, scheduled for the end of ...

The FDA is already limited in policing claims of health benefits by makers of supplements and herbal remedies — a $70 billion ...

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The scion of the famous and influential Kennedy family was confirmed last week as Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), in a 52-48 nearly party-line vote.

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Anthony Gardner was fired from the World Trade Center Health Program. For him, the mission was personal; his brother died in ...

Regulating or restricting the abortion pill has become an important cause for pro-life activists, as the drug now accounts for more than half of all abortions in the U.S.

Kennedy urged his new staff to drop any preconceived notions of who he is, but also said he wouldn’t stop asking “difficult ...

THREE DAYS AFTER the National Institutes of Health abruptly announced it would place a strict, low cap on the money it sends ...