The findings come after Utah and Florida’s ban on fluoride in public drinking water went into effect during the summer.

For years, critics have used fear of “IQ loss” to fuel campaigns against community water fluoridation. Public officials, including Robert F. Kennedy Jr., have called fluoride an “industrial waste”.

A new decades-long study has found no evidence that exposure to recommended levels of fluoride lowers children’s cognitive ...

A new decades-long study has found no evidence that exposure to recommended levels of fluoride lowers children’s cognitive skills. The research, which was published on Wednesday in Science Advances, ...

The longstanding public health practice of adding fluoride to community drinking water is facing heavy scrutiny in the United States over questions about whether the benefits outweigh the potential ...

The agency announced new recommendations on fluoride supplements, a crucial tool for protecting children’s dental health. By Dani Blum The announcement came on Halloween, hours before ...

BRADENTON, Fla. – Manatee County commissioners voted Tuesday morning to stop adding fluoride to county drinking water. The vote was 5-1 to stop adding the mineral. In discussing the move, ...

In the early 2000s, a few small studies done on communities in China and India caught Loc Do's attention. The studies found these places, which had naturally high levels of fluoride in their water ...

Florida has become the latest state to restrict fluoride additives in public drinking water, after Governor Ron DeSantis signed the bill into law this week, and a Newsweek map shows how similar ...

Typical levels of fluoride in community drinking water do not impair cognitive abilities and may even boost them, according ...

A new study published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science finds fluoride in drinking water does not impair cognitive abilities and may even boost them. Using test scores from ...