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Dr. James H. Bekker made it clear while standing at a podium in front of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in Silver Spring, Md. on July 23: there is no way to replace fluoride supplements if the government decides to take them off the market.

In communities without fluoridated water, these supplements are the only way that families can help children access fluoride, the dentist said, thus protecting their teeth from decay.

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“When we don’t have fluoride, there are certain things that happen that are very disturbing,” said Bekker, a professor at the University of Utah School of Dentistry and a past president of the American Dental Association, at a hearing debating the FDA’s plan to ban ingestible fluoride tablets from the marketplace. “We have an increase in tooth decay, and we have an increase in the use of emergency services to receive care for dental emergencies.”

Yet the FDA appears to be moving towards banning these supplements after ..

Aisha Adkins’ mother Rosetta was adamant that she wanted to age at home. So when Rosetta’s dementia started worsening at age 59, Aisha started looking around for options.

She quickly found that round-the-clock at-home care was extremely costly, and that her mother didn’t qualify for government assistance. Stuck in the middle, Aisha, who was 29 at the time, ended up quitting her job to take of her mother care of her herself.

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At first, Rosetta just needed help preparing meals and reminders to take her medication. But as her care needs deepened, Aisha had to learn how to bathe and dress and feed her mother. She and her father hired a home health aide for a few hours a week when they could, but most of the care fell to the two of them until her mother finally qualified for Medicaid through a complicated process called spousal impoverishment protection, which allowed her father to keep some assets.

“We faced so many challenges; it was really a struggle..

Federal health officials are scrutinizing a mineral—added to some makeup, medications, and foods—that many people have never thought twice about: talc.

In a recent viewpoint article called “Priorities for a New FDA,” published in the medical journal JAMA, Dr. Martin Makary, commissioner of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), and Dr. Vinay Prasad, the FDA’s Chief Medical and Scientific Officer, wrote that the FDA conducted an expert panel on talc in May. They also noted that some companies have removed talc from baby powder because it’s a carcinogen. Johnson & Johnson, for example, stopped using talc in 2023 following more than 60,000 legal claims from ovarian cancer patients.

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The JAMA article added that talc remains common, since people still “ingest it regularly” as an ingredient in various medications and foods.

Despite the lawsuits, though, research hasn’t confirmed whether talc causes cancer, especially when consumed through food. Mean..

There has been a lot of talk about the potential for AI in health, but most of the studies so far have been stand-ins for the actual practice of medicine: simulated scenarios that predict what the impact of AI could be in medical settings.

But in one of the first real-world tests of an AI tool, working side-by-side with cliniciansin Kenya, researchers showed that AI can reduce medical errors by as much as 16%.

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In a study available on OpenAI.com that is being submitted to a scientific journal, researchers at OpenAI and Penda Health, a network of primary care clinics operating in Nairobi, found that an AI tool can provide a powerful assist to busy clinicians who can’t be expected to know everything about every medical condition. Penda Health employs clinicians who are trained for four years in basic health care: the equivalent of physician assistants in the U.S. The health group, which operates 16 primary care clinics in Nairobi Kenya, has its own guid..

Coca-Cola has announced that it will be introducing a cane sugar version of its leading soda product to the U.S. market this fall, confirming President Donald Trump’s pre-emptive announcement made days earlier.

The new offering of Coca-Cola will be available in the U.S. alongside the iconic version, which uses high fructose corn syrup as a sweetener and will remain unchanged. (Diet and Coke Zero products use aspartame and other artificial sweeteners.)

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The soda company said that the upcoming availability of the cane sugar product is part of its “ongoing innovation agenda.”

“This addition is designed to complement the company’s strong core portfolio and offer more choices across occasions and preferences,” Coca-Cola said on Tuesday in its second quarterly update of the year.

The company’s chairman and CEO James Quincey elaborated further on a conference call with investors, during which he referenced Trump’s recent comments and praised his interest i..