This symptom should prompt a talk with a healthcare professional. Known as “geographic tongue” this phenomenon causes “smooth reddish” patches to form on the tongue. Its name comes from ...

This symptom should prompt a talk with a healthcare professional. Known as “geographic tongue” this phenomenon causes “smooth reddish” patches to form on the tongue. Its name comes from ...

Perhaps most directly related to tongue swelling is a condition called geographic tongue, where smooth red patches with white borders appear on the tongue surface, giving it a map-like appearance.

CORVALLIS — The road was long, painful and uncertain. But Makiya Tongue is back on the field for Oregon State football this spring. In September 2023, on a special teams play against San Diego ...

JEDDAH - Max Verstappen bit his tongue to stay out of trouble after clearly disagreeing with Formula One stewards over a costly Saudi Arabian Grand Prix penalty on April 20. Red Bull's four times ...

I’m often asked about the space probes that are leaving the solar system, never to return. There are five of them: Pioneer 10 and 11 and Voyager 1 and 2 – all launched in the 1970s – and New Horizons, ...

Chanel Tapper never imagined her tongue would bring fame. The California student proudly holds a unique Guinness World Record. Since 2010, she has had the world’s longest tongue (female).

Did she hold her breath or knit her eyebrows? Did she stick her tongue out? Have you ever stopped to wonder why people do this? It’s not just children who do this. Grown-ups bite their lips ...

Using a swab to test for a disease should be fresh in the memory of anyone who had a Covid-19 test. A test for TB that relies on a simple tongue swab instead of a person having to cough up sputum is ...

It was a referral following a blood test I'd had the day before we went abroad. About six weeks earlier, my tongue had felt sore. I initially thought I must have bitten it. But, then, two white ...