People living with amyloidosis often don’t receive adequate nutrients from food. This may be due to tongue swelling, difficulty swallowing, loss of appetite, or intestinal dysfunction.

Infiltrative and infective etiologies should be sought -- in particular, the physician should remember that amyloid might present with macroglossia. Associated purpura of the tongue or elsewhere ...

All phases of swallowing were affected. In the autopsy pathology, there were extensive amyloid deposits in the viscera and nerves of the tongue, larynx, and esophagus. In A97S, 45 patients (43.3%) had ...

A Cavan woman battling a rare and incurable form of bone marrow cancer hopes to run her 600th lifetime marathon by June of ...

A TERMINALLY-ill chef has vowed to run her 600th marathon by the summer. Doctors diagnosed Brenda O’Keeffe, 48, from Co Cavan, with a rare and untreatable type of bone marrow cancer last year. The ...

Regular aerobic exercise was linked to a reduction in markers in the brains of in rats that associated with the onset of Alzheimer's, including amyloid plaques, according to a new paper in the ...

Man, she feels like a tongue! Shania Twain stars in a new commercial for Coffee mate, set to air during the 2025 Super Bowl, in which she plays a singing version of the oral organ to promote the ...

The bacteria in your mouth and on your tongue may be linked to changes in brain function as you age, new research suggested. The study, led by the University of Exeter, found that certain bacteria ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — Robert F. Kennedy Jr. was pressed to clarify his views on vaccines, abortion and public health priorities in the first of two Senate hearings as he tries to make the case to ...