The debate over fluoride in drinking water continues across Florida as public health officials, local leaders and activists ...

Polk County’s level of immunization for kindergartners dropped from 96.3% in 2021 to 93.2% in 2023, still above the statewide ...

There is little appetite in Palm Beach County to stop treating water with fluoride, even if Florida Surgeon General Joseph ...

Florida enacted a new law this year prohibiting children under 14 from creating social media accounts. We hear from people locally who share their thoughts.

After a presidential campaign characterized by anti-trans slogans — such as ads stating, “Kamala is for they/them, President ...

Threat assessment teams are common in public schools but systemic problems put them at risk of unfairly labeling and ...

“Florida kicked more than half a million kids off Medicaid, and now thousands more have no health insurance because of this delay,” said Joan Alker, executive director of the Center of ...

The Brevard County Dental Society will offer free dental care to children on February 1, at Eastern Florida State College in Cocoa.

Jen Fisher can do only so much to keep her son safe from the types of infections that children can encounter at school. The ...

While individual flu cases are not reported in Florida, the state did say that there were 13 outbreaks in eight counties, including two in Seminole County, one in Orange County, and one in Volusia ...

Three families and a pediatric endocrinologist allege in a lawsuit filed in 2023 that the law violates the state constitution ...

In place of the state, a nonprofit association has regulatory authority over about two dozen of the facilities.