Health & Wellness

Lawmakers in Florida gave final passage to a bill banning fluoride in public water systems on Tuesday, with the state House voting 88 yay and 27 nay.

Americans’ life expectancy increased throughout the 20th century, but in some states people aren’t living much longer than they were 100 years ago.

Women health CEOs say the presumption it’s OK for women to ‘suffer,’ from early parenting to menopause, needs to be replaced by actual treatment and services.

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Dr. Arif Kamal, an oncologist at the American Cancer Society, explains what kind of sunscreen to use with your children and how often to reapply it.

A video shows a Texas doctor, who has been treating children in a measles outbreak, with a measles rash on his face in a clinic while caring for patients a week before he met with Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr..

Where you live, what you’re allergic to and your lifestyle can make a big difference when it comes to the severity of your allergies.

Registered dietitian Kylie Sakaida practices stress-free eating by meal planning and not aiming for perfection in her diet. Here are the meals she has weekly.

The results bring Eli Lilly’s pill orforglipron one step closer to becoming a new, needle-free alternative in the booming weight loss and diabetes market. 

The announcement adds to a string of setbacks in Pfizer’s bid to win a slice of the booming market that Wall Street projects to be worth $150 billion.

The federal government will soon stop recommending that municipalities add fluoride to public drinking water. Many communities in Massachusetts already don’t do so.

Political commentator Sue O’Connell explains the roles that local, state and federal governments play in setting water safety standards, as well as the background of the anti-fluoride movement.

RFK Jr.’s “tepid endorsement” of measles vaccination puts the U.S. at risk of losing its elimination status of the disease as early as January, the FDA’s former top vaccine regulator said.

Towns and cities in Massachusetts get to decide on whether to add fluoride to water, and not all of them do. But after Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s announcement that the CDC will no longer recommend it in water systems, officials we spoke with said it won’t change what they do — fluoride in low doses has long...

U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. visited the epicenter of Texas’ still-growing measles outbreak on Sunday, the same day a funeral was held for a second young child who was not vaccinated and died from a measles-related illness.

Another child with measles in Texas has died, the Department of Health and Human Services confirmed late Saturday night, though the exact cause of death is under investigation, NBC News reported.

Public health officials in California confirmed that three people in the town of Mammoth Lakes have died from hantavirus, the same virus that killed actor Gene Hackman’s wife in February, NBC News reported.

Dr. Diego Hijano, a pediatric infectious disease expert from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, answers your questions on how the MMR vaccine can protect your kids from the measles.

Cuts to the CDC and FDA, experts say, could reverse hugely successful campaigns to cut cigarette smoking rates and curb teen vaping.

Under Kennedy’s leadership, HHS has seen mass firings across health agencies, including staff responsible for outbreak response and vaccine access.

In celebration of Autism Awareness Month, Kelly shines a light on “Snoopers & Sneakers,” a new young adult novel about two unlikely friends who team up to solve a mystery. Co-authors Cristina and Lydia dial-in and share how they teamed up to write the novel, including Lydia bringing her real-life experience with autism to help bring the cat-obsessed middle school...