Ever bitten into a hot pie, yelped "Hothothot!" then had your taste buds go on strike for the next week? Taste buds are a ...

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through the links below." While there’s still no cure to loss of taste and smell due to COVID-19, those who are stuck ...

Thanks to vaccines, the rates of severe COVID-19 in the US have gone down dramatically. However, it's still possible to contract the disease and suffer long-term effects, one of which is the loss of ...

There is no exact known number of GLP-1 patients who say their say their sense of taste has changed since starting the medication. But people like Loren report the drugs, which manage blood sugar and ...

Unusual changes in how food tastes are often overlooked. A bitter aftertaste, metallic sensation, or sudden dullness in flavour might be dismissed as harmless or temporary. Yet these symptoms are ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the brain and the body but sometimes other things. According to a new study, two-thirds of people admitted to the ...

PEOPLE's Voices from the Coronavirus Crisis speaks to those who have experienced unique circumstances as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic Nabil Ayers is a Brooklyn-based writer and the U.S. Head of ...

It was four days into her suspected COVID-19 infection that Olivia Haynes realized she couldn’t smell or taste anything. Her dry cough and fever had briefly subsided and her appetite had returned, so ...

Six weeks after symptoms improved, which coincided with the patient’s recovery of sense of taste. Another patient was a 63-year-old man with no preexisting conditions who had donated samples of his ...

Every first memory evokes a sense impression that influences the life of the individual. In rare instances, a person recounts an early recollection that relates to taste. Less than 2 percent of ...