When you think of tongue cancer, what immediately comes to mind is tobacco use and its side effects. While smoking and chewing tobacco are among the leading causes of tongue cancer, it isn't the only ...

As winter temperatures drop, a familiar childhood warning resurfaces: Don’t stick your tongue on a frozen metal pole. The moment was made famous in the holiday classic “A Christmas Story” when a ...

A four-year-old French mastiff and Bullmastiff mix from Oklahoma has set a new Guinness World Record for having a super long tongue. Ozzy claimed the title for the longest tongue on a living dog with ...

On the heels of comedian Dave Coulier’s announcement of his tongue cancer diagnosis, experts are sharing what to know about the disease. Coulier, 66, announced in a Tuesday interview that he has been ...

Former Full House star Dave Coulier is undergoing treatment for tongue cancer just under a year after beating non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Coulier revealed that he’s now battling HPV-related oropharyngeal ...

Don’t take a licking from spicy food. A team of researchers in China claims to have created an artificial “tongue” that can quickly detect spice levels in their food — and they used a well-known ...

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 ...

We all have tastebuds, and some of us even have more textured tongues than others, but you know an out-of-place tongue bump when you see one. It could be swollen, discolored, or even painful. Such ...

In what appeared to be a slip of the tongue, “Saturday Night Live” alumna Kate McKinnon recently revealed to People that she has an odd but harmless medical condition called “geographic tongue.” “Your ...

The harmless condition affects the surface of the tongue, according to the Mayo Clinic. By Carly Thomas Senior Editor, Digital “I took a photo of my tongue and sent it to an actor friend of mine,” she ...

Kate McKinnon is making light of her medical diagnosis. The Saturday Night Live alum has opened up about discovering that she has geographic tongue. "I took a photo of my tongue and sent it to an ...