Look, most people think their tongue is just for tasting food and talking. Wrong. Your tongue is basically a health dashboard that doctors have been reading for thousands of years. Traditional Chinese ...

When we think of unique body identifiers, we think of fingerprints, iris patterns or even DNA. But scientists have discovered another surprisingly accurate biometric marker in your tongue. Its shape, ...

LANSDALE, Pa. -- Smoking and alcohol used to be the primary causes of head and neck cancers. But now, HPV, the human papillomavirus, is the main cause by far. Leonard Balk, a Lansdale business owner, ...

Q: I have had geographic tongue for almost two years. It's unsightly and sometimes quite painful, but my ENT assures me it's not related to infection or cancer. A prescription for nystatin oral hasn't ...

A significant portion of coronavirus patients may experience bumps, swelling, and inflammation of the tongue, per new reports. So-called “COVID tongue” is not yet recognized as a symptom of COVID-19, ...

VIENNA, Austria -- The man believed to be the first recipient of a human tongue transplant was recovering Tuesday and showed no signs of rejecting the organ, his doctors said. The 42-year-old patient, ...

Tongue-tie — a condition in infants that can affect breastfeeding — may be overdiagnosed in the U.S. and too often treated with unnecessary surgery, a prominent doctors group said Monday. The American ...

Finally. Proof that drinking wine can help physicians do their job. Well, sort of. An old hack to open a wine bottle without a corkscrew served as inspiration for German doctors tasked with helping a ...