Your daily saliva offers vital health clues, from dry mouth signaling diabetes to foamy saliva indicating acid reflux.

When things are amiss with your mouth — especially your spit — it can be a sign of underlying conditions. When things are amiss with your mouth — especially your spit — it can be a sign of underlying ...

People living with type 2 diabetes often face many health challenges, but problems with teeth and oral health are rarely ...

“Saliva is one of the most accessible biological fluids but it is still underutilised in clinical practice”, said José Ramón Bilbao, Professor of Medical Genetics at the EHU and one of the lead ...

The bodily fluids of dangerous animals such as snakes and spiders are not ones you want to come into contact with if you can help it, but researchers continues to show how they can contain key ...

A research team led by the University of the Basque Country (Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea, EHU) has identified hundreds of molecular markers in saliva that could reveal the risk of a person ...

Your saliva carries so much information about your body, but rarely do most of us pay attention to it. Made up of 98-99% of water, your spit holds proteins, hormones, and genetic material that gives ...

WASHINGTON, DC — A new Canadian study shows that metabolites in salivary samples may be able to discriminate normal aging from mild cognitive impairment (MCI) and Alzheimer's disease (AD) and can ...

A new enhanced benefit program by Delta Dental of Massachusetts (DDMA), the largest dental insurance carrier in Massachusetts, focused on performance of chairside saliva-based ...