Research has generally shown that drinking fluoridated water at the recommended levels is safe and beneficial for oral health ...

With his term soon to expire, Social Security chief Martin O’Malley’s efforts to address the agency’s overpayments to ...

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The child tax credit passed by Congress at the height of covid has expired, but states and localities are trying to fill the ...

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Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a campaign rally for President-elect Donald Trump on Nov. 1 in Warren, Michigan. (Chip ...

With the arrival in California of dengue, a dangerous mosquito-borne disease present mainly in more tropical climates, public ...

California health officials began providing protective clothing to farmworkers months before the state’s first bird flu ...

In late October, the Health and Human Services Inspector General found that Medicare Advantage plans pocketed $7.5 billion in ...

Victims of the opioid crisis, health advocates, and public policy experts have repeatedly called on state and local ...