CHARLOTTE, N.C.– Just in time for National Pickle Day and holiday shopping season, pickle toothpaste is here. The toothpaste ...

The preserved cucumber is no longer relegated to a glass jar, served on the side of your burgers and fries. From fried ...

For decades, toothbrushes have evolved at a sluggish pace, offering only incremental improvements to a daily task that has remained largely unchanged. The inadequacy of traditional toothbrushes in ...

Those millions of bacteria, fungi and viruses interacting in your mouth are what health care providers call the oral microbiome. Bacino is one of many researchers and clinicians in the School of ...

About 18,000 Americans are diagnosed with a new case of oropharyngeal cancer each year, with a UK head, neck and thyroid surgeon pointing the finger at oral sex. Oropharyngeal cancer is a type of ...

Oncologists are increasingly looking at oral sex as a primary driver of an 'epidemic' of throat cancers. Rates of a specific type - known as oropharyngeal cancer - have been rising since the ...

Oropharyngeal cancer has now become more common than cervical cancer in the US and the UK. HPV is sexually transmitted. For oropharyngeal cancer, the main risk factor is the number of lifetime sexual ...