Health

A bill that would ban fluoride from Florida’s public drinking water is heading to the governor’s desk. Romain Costaseca/Hans Lucas/AFP via Getty Images hide caption toggle caption Romain Costaseca/Hans Lucas/AFP …

Caution: This story contains descriptions of sexual assault. For many years, I thought concerns over children’s exposure to pornography didn’t apply to my daughter. She’s only 9 years old and …

A survey of older Americans found that 79% would want to know if they were in the early stages of Alzheimer’s, and 92% said that if diagnosed, they would probably …

Community health worker Geoffrey Chanda used to distribute HIV medications to long-haul truck drivers and sex workers at truck stops like this one near the border of Zambia and the …

A new survey from the Alzheimer’s Association finds that people want to know if they are in the early stages of the disease, and are open to drug treatment.

Coty Raven Morris conducts the combined Rose and Thorn Choirs singing an African piece called “Modimo” at the From the Dust concert performed at First Congregational Church in Portland in …

A tattoo shop in Ohio helps trauma and abuse survivors reclaim their bodies by transforming scars into beautiful tattooed art

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks at the news conference where he announced new initiatives to determine the cause of autism. Alex Wong/Getty Images …

NPR’s Mary Louise Kelly speaks with Jill Escher, president of the National Council on Severe Autism, about Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy’s remarks this month on autism.

Adelaide Tovar, a postdoctoral geneticist at the University of Michigan, prepares cell samples in a science laboratory on campus. Tovar is one of about 200 young scientists who will lose …