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Republican Governor Spencer Cox signed a bill into law Thursday banning fluoride from the state's drinking water becoming the first to do so. Read More.

Two new studies suggest cannabis carries very serious heart health risks, including that people under 50 who use it are more than six times as likely to have a heart attack, compared to nonusers. Read More.

Sleep disturbances may accelerate neurodegeneration, but whether they cause or result from disease remains unclear. Improving sleep quality could help protect against cognitive decline and brain aging. Read More.

Americans have long believed that sports are one area in society that offers kids from all backgrounds the chance to succeed to the best of their abilities. Read More.

Discover simple lifestyle changes to boost memory, improve focus, and protect your brain health for years to come. Read More.

New research challenges the idea that infants cannot form memories, showing that babies as young as 12 months old can encode experiences. Read More.

Research has found that bad sleep could lead to numerous health problems, including heart disease. Here are recommendations to improve sleep. Read More.

Key messages and information about the risks and health effects of cannabis use for youth aged 13–17. Read More.

WebMD explains why your doctor asks about your relatives’ health conditions and how you can get the information if you don’t know. Read More.

Learn about children's health including common illnesses, injuries, growth and development, family health, and community health. A child's overall health is more than their physical, emotional, and mental health. It also includes the health of their family as a whole, their community and their environment. Read More.

Our brains use basic 'building blocks' of information to keep track of how people interact, enabling us to navigate complex social interactions, finds a new study led by University College London (UCL) researchers. Read More.

About one in 15 people reported the "phantom smells" that didn't go away. Read More.

The cheap painkiller seems to help the immune system detect and destroy cancers. Read More.

A ‘chasm of misunderstanding and miscommunication’ is often experienced between clinicians and patients, leading to autoimmune diseases such as lupus and vasculitis being wrongly diagnosed as psychiatric or psychosomatic conditions, with a profound and lasting impact on patients, researchers have found. Read More.

Chronic health conditions are taking a major, hidden toll on the U.S. workforce's lives and productivity, according to a new national poll by Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the de Beaumont Foundation. Read More.