"Wash your mouth out with soap" is no longer just a threat parents use to scare foul-mouthed children, but an actual recommendation some dentists are making to their patients. Vitality Products' ...

PITTSBURGH (KDKA) - The FDA has banned a controversial chemical found in antibacterial soap, but it turns out that ingredient is still legal in toothpaste. Plain old soap and water — that is now the ...

They’re ordinary, everyday substances, easy to procure for most people reading this, we lucky ones who go around washing our bodies and brushing our teeth every day like it’s nothing. If you recall ...

A few weeks ago, I spent a night at the Kendall Hotel in Cambridge, Mass., a congenial place done up in a firehouse theme with an atrium on the top floor. There’s a bowl of apples in the lobby, free ...

Since cancer seems to be an ever-present enemy, we greet the appearance of its lethal emissaries in prosaic objects with a morbid lack of surprise: carcinogens lurk in coffee, hamburgers, rugs, ...

While toothpaste is sold as the ‘key’ to maintaining a set of beautiful, clean and strong white teeth, over the years there has been concern over some of the ingredients found in toothpaste. One of ...