public health

Utah is now the first state in the nation to ban adding fluoride to drinking water. NPR's Ayesha Rascoe talks with Utah dentist James Bekker about the impact on oral health.

The Colorado Senate has approved two ballot measures that will allow voters to decide on increasing funding for the Healthy School Meals for All program, which aims to provide free school meals.

Mind Springs Health in Grand Junction was considering a partnership with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement this year to offer inpatient mental health care services to detainees. But when community concern mounted over how the potential deal could make it easier for ICE to arrest immigrants in Western Colorado, the mental health care provider abandoned contract discussions.

Protestors called on lawmakers to defend scientific research, as the Trump administration moves to cut workforce and funding.

West Springs Hospital announced on Monday it’s closing its doors on March 10, 2025 after years of financial trouble. The closure also cut ties between Mind Springs and Larkin Health, which has been managing the nonprofit since November.

The Trump administration is targeting programs that prioritize diversity, equity, and inclusion, as well as topics related to environmental justice and climate change.

A bill that would implement a fee on alcohol manufacturers and wholesalers in Colorado prompted a lengthy discussion among Montezuma County commissioners and health officials Tuesday.

Colorado is ramping up its efforts to distribute the monkeypox vaccine after President Biden declared it a health emergency. And fourteen tribes in the Colorado River basin say they’re being kept “largely in the dark” about plans to conserve an unprecedented amount of water amid historic drought.

Elizabeth Reiter’s family was not by her side on Mother’s Day in 2020, when she was fighting pneumonia and a blood infection in a Denver hospital. The coronavirus pandemic was just starting to rage, and hospitals were keeping visitors out to limit the spread of the virus.

Temperatures in Colorado are warming faster than the national average, according to researchers. Experts say that the current dry spell is a symptom of…