Podcaster Saron Olkaba’s viral TikTok, “Pigmented Contact Cheilitis,” has sparked a conversation about a lip reaction some people experience but may have never heard of: pigmented contact cheilitis, ...

Orofacial granulomatosis is a nonspecific term that contains a wide variety of granulomatous entities, which share a clinical and histopathological presentation. It manifests as persistent or ...

Can Ulcerative Colitis Cause Mouth Sores? Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a type of inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). UC is a chronic (lasting and persistent) condition that mainly affects the colon, part ...

If you have acne-prone skin, you're probably familiar with those pesky dark spots on the forehead, nose or chin, commonly known as blackheads. Although it may be tempting to pop and pick at them when ...

What Are the Symptoms of Actinic Cheilitis? Also called sailor’s lip, farmer’s lip, or solar cheilosis, actinic cheilitis is a skin condition affecting your lips. It’s a form of actinic keratosis, ...

Long COVID is a symptom-driven disease, meaning that with no cure, physicians primarily treat the symptoms their patients are experiencing. Effective treatments for long COVID remain elusive because ...

To describe the destructive effects of intense health anxiety to his young doctors in training at Columbia University Irving Medical Center in New York City, psychiatrist Brian Fallon likes to quote ...

When my daughter was young, she washed her hands a lot. We might have poked what we thought was gentle fun at her, saying she was “a little bit OCD”. Later, she began to disclose “bad thoughts”, which ...