A large, snow-white ulcer swelled up on the dangly tissue at the back of a man's throat, but doctors couldn't immediately explain why. It turns out that a single-celled parasite was the culprit, and ...

A man unwittingly picked up a parasite, and years later, it triggered a throat infection. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A large ...

The uvula is the soft, fleshy part that hangs down at the back of the throat. A swollen or inflamed uvula is called uvulitis, and it can result from an infection, an allergy, an injury, and exposure ...

When you were a child, you might have looked in the mirror at the inside of your mouth and wondered about that dangling thing at the back of it. That soft flap of tissue that looks like a droplet at ...