THERE’S been an “alarming” increase in HIV infections among straight women, a new report warns. It comes as sexual health ...

Morning breath stems from natural bacterial activity when saliva production slows overnight. While typically harmless and ...

Your teeth and gums can be early indicators of various health issues, from eating disorders and anemia to osteoporosis and ...

Thrush, also known as a Candida yeast infection, can cause incredibly pain inside of your mouth. However, by reducing these ...

IT’S that time of year when countless illnesses are flying around, from coughs and colds to Covid and flu. Most of the time, ...

The shape, colour and texture of your tongue can reveal whether patients are suffering from nutritional deficiencies, fungal ...

If you’ve heard the buzz about oral probiotics, lozenges or melts that deliver beneficial bacteria to your mouth, you’re not alone. The idea is simple: just as gut probiotics can nudge your ...

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As happens annually, fresh variants of the virus responsible for COVID-19 are spreading across Europe. The XFG variant has now become predominant. Media outlets frequently label it the "Frankenstein ...

Drozd means “Thrush” in English. Wlodarczyk is as a popular surname in Polish as, say “Hernandez” in Spanish. All in all, it’s a perennial contender Greg Thrush versus an established hard-nosed ...

The head, its hair dyed red, was severed from the body and found in dense vegetation near a Rio favela, some 24 hours after Brazil's deadliest-ever police operation. It belonged to 19-year-old Iago ...