When an academic makes a research breakthrough, two things can happen in the public consciousness: nothing, or something. It’s hard to know which is worse. Let’s say you’re a physicist who discovers a ...

A dentist in Germany will have to pay 20,000 euros to a patient after he unnecessarily removed all of the patient’s teeth. The patient, Alex, who suffers from schizophrenia, believed that his teeth ...

$189 at Amazon.com We’ve all seen electric toothbrushes. Well, here’s an electronic one, a German-made device distributed by a company in Canton. The Emmi-Dent uses ultrasonic vibrations to kill mouth ...