With hand, foot and mouth disease, or HFMD, spreading through certain parts of the country, there are certain symptoms to look for and ways to treat the illness.

Hand, foot and mouth disease is a highly contagious — but usually mild — illness that typically affects kids under 5.

In any relationship, there's usually one partner that does the heavy lifting. In the case of one alien-looking parasitic isopod, that's the female, who has the tough job of gobbling up a fish's tongue ...

Anemia (a lack of healthy red blood cells) can produce a swollen and painful tongue (glossitis), sometimes called “anemia tongue.” Anemia has many causes, including iron deficiency, vitamin B12 ...

At 30, the High Wycombe resident assumed it was just a stubborn mouth ulcer brought on by stress after a house move and long hours at work. But six weeks later the pain was still there – and getting ...

Floor of the mouth cancer is a type of oral cancer that forms under the tongue. Smoking, tobacco use, and drinking alcohol are some of the main risk factors for this form of cancer. Share on Pinterest ...

"COVID tongue" and mouth ulcers may need to be included in what could become a vast list of symptoms of the coronavirus, a British researcher says. Tim Spector, a professor of genetic epidemiology at ...