Your last meal is usually to blame if there’s a bad taste lingering in your mouth — but it could also be a sign you’re sick.

Unusual changes in how food tastes are often overlooked. A bitter aftertaste, metallic sensation, or sudden dullness in ...

Khaberni - An unusual taste in the mouth, whether bitter or sour, is not just a fleeting annoyance, but may represent an ...

A year into the coronavirus pandemic, researchers well know that SARS-CoV-2, the scientific name for the novel virus, typically causes infection after it invades the body’s upper airways and lungs.

Scientists have known since last spring that the coronavirus can cause loss of taste and smell, dry mouth and oral lesions, and that it is present in infected people's saliva. But exactly how it ...

The coronavirus SARS-CoV-2 can infect cells in the mouth, which may spur the virus's spread both in the body and to other people, according to a preliminary study. The researchers went on to sample ...

You may have heard about the connection between HPV infection and certain types of cervical cancer, but did you know HPV infection is also related to a higher risk of throat and mouth cancer? To ...

Months of research have revealed clues about the many nooks and crannies where the coronavirus may set up shop, such as the digestive system, blood vessels and kidneys, furiously making copies of ...

The mouth is a strong site for infection and transmission of the novel coronavirus, according to a study published October 27 on the preprint server medRxiv. Researchers believe this is the first ...