More than 200 million people in the United States live in areas where fluoride is added to tap water. According to the most recent data from 2012, 24 other countries around the world — including ...

“Also, there’s a concern that it simply isn’t natural to put fluoride in the water, even though, ironically, the benefits of fluoride were discovered because it naturally occurs in many ...

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. wants to remove fluoride from water, as Israel's Yael German did.Chris Unger/Zuffa LLC via Getty Images; Flash 90 Ilana Decker, who moved from Israel to New York three years ...

Oliver A.H. Jones receives funding from the Australian Research Council (ARC), various water utilities and the Environment Protection Agency (EPA) Victoria for research into environmental pollution.

This disease is actually fluorosis, which happens when developing teeth are exposed to excessive fluoride. The water they were drinking had extremely high natural levels of fluoride. However ...

Communities across the U.S. have been adding fluoride to their water systems since the 1960s, and in Michigan even longer, but that could change under Donald Trump's second term. President-elect ...

The issue has to do with fluoride, a chemical naturally abundant in drinking water in Colorado Springs a century ago. The realization that fluoride could make teeth resistant to decay led to ...

Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s assertion that the Trump administration will recommend the removal of fluoride from U.S. drinking water for health reasons is highlighting a controversy that has caused ...

SAN DIEGO — The federal government is scaling back its dependence on fluoride in drinking water after new studies found a link between high fluoride exposure to behavioral issues and lower ...

Health and Human Services Secretary nominee Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said he’ll recommend that local governments remove fluoride from their water supplies. But the mineral is much less prevalent in ...

Kennedy, who endorsed Trump after ending his independent bid for president, has called fluoride a “dangerous neurotoxin" and plans to remove it from the nation's public water systems.