For thousands of years traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) practitioners have checked patients’ tongues as part of a full examination, carefully scrutinizing their color, shape and coating in an ...

(NEXSTAR) – Do you have a “geographic tongue”? No, it’s not a nickname for a person who speaks multiple languages, or even a glutton who enjoys a diverse range of worldly cuisines. It’s actually a ...

Kate McKinnon, known for her decade on Saturday Night Live and her role as Weird Barbie in Barbie, has shared a health update. She revealed that she has been diagnosed with a condition called ...

A team of researchers report in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on a new graphene-based sensor design that, through machine learning, was able to develop a near-human sense of ...

Oral cavity lesions range from benign reactive growths to aggressive malignancies. As a result of trauma or irritation, benign tumors like fibrous hyperplasias, mucoceles, and hemangiomas frequently ...

A plantar fibroma is a fibrous knot, or nodule, in the arch of the foot. This nodule is embedded in the plantar fascia — a band of tissue spanning from heel to toe along the bottom of the foot. A ...

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When it comes to fighting halitosis, TikTokers are ditching mouthwash in favor of…tongue scraping. Experts in oral hygiene like Joyce Kahng, DDS, a California-based dentist who went viral a few years ...

The singer promotes Coffee mate's tasty — and lickable — cold foam creamers in a 2025 Super Bowl commercial Nicholas Rice is a Senior Editor for PEOPLE Magazine. He began working with the brand as an ...

Tongue scraping is the process of running a simple tool across your tongue to remove bacteria, food particles, and other debris from the surface. It's been around for hundreds of years, with tongue ...