Recent findings published in Science Advances provide new evidence regarding the long-term cognitive effects of consuming ...

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”.

Children exposed to recommended levels of fluoride in drinking water show modest cognitive advantages in secondary school, with no clear evidence of harm to cognitive functioning around age 60, ...

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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 ...

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, ...

UPDATE: Pasco City Council votes 4-2 to discontinue fluoridation in the city's drinking water. The city will join Kennewick and Richland in keeping fluoride out of the water. The decision comes after ...

For 80 years, most American cities have been adding fluoride to their water for healthy teeth. For just as long, dentists have been giving children fluoride drops and tablets. Now the Food and Drug ...

A growing movement to remove fluoride from public drinking water is gaining steam, fueled by modern research and safety concerns. Adding to the fire is a judge’s order last year that the Environmental ...

The announcement came on Halloween, just hours before trick-or-treaters started collecting candy: The Food and Drug Administration issued new recommendations about fluoride supplements and sent ...