"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 ...

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 ...

For millions of people, the COVID-19 pandemic is far from over. Roughly one in four people who were sick with COVID-19 during the early days of the pandemic have yet to regain their sense of smell or ...

The angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 (ACE2) enzyme attached to the membranes of cells is the entry point for severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). They are abundantly found all ...

Can we lose our sense of taste and smell? Yes, and people who go to their GP reporting a loss of either sense are, after testing, found to be either completely without smell or taste sensations or ...

Kelsey Meeks sprayed pine-scented air freshener in her office last week — then started to cry. For the first time in months, she could smell it. Meeks, a 36-year-old attorney who lives outside New ...

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 ...

As a scientist who investigates hunger and weight control, I’m interested in the way our brains let us know we’ve had enough. As we begin to feel full, we slow down how quickly we eat. For decades, ...

Children are naturally attracted to sweets, but our palate changes as we age and experience new foods. In 1980, a candy company launched a new gum aimed at kids. Big League Chew sold a pouch of ...

We tend to think that our sense of taste is our sense of taste, but how we determine flavor depends on many factors. Remember the old taste map of the tongue? It claimed that the back tastes ...

Jeff Glor talks to Molly Birnbaum about "Season to Taste: How I Lost My Sense of Smell and Found My Way" Jeff Glor: What inspired you to write the book? Molly Birnbaum: I fell in love with cooking ...

David Laing's research was partly supported by a grant from the Sydney Children's Hospital Foundation. If your child were diagnosed with a taste disorder, you’d be forgiven for welcoming an impending ...