Learn how researchers may have finally uncovered why some people experience long-lasting taste loss after COVID-19.

Researchers identify a reduction in the PLCβ2 protein as the cause for long-term sweet, bitter, and umami taste loss in post-COVID patients.

Researchers found reduced PLCβ2 and structural damage in taste buds of long-term post-COVID patients. Sweet, bitter, and umami signaling were impaired, while salty and sour pathways stayed intact, ...

The odor and discharge are strongly suggestive of a bacterial sinus infection. COVID infections, like all viral infections, ...

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 ...

A COVID-19 infection left millions of patients without their full sense of taste or smell returning, study says. Elly Johnson via Unsplash Millions of people who strangely lost their ability to taste ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Millions of people who strangely lost their ability to taste or smell after a COVID-19 infection have had their senses fully ...

Research links persistent loss of sweet, bitter and umami taste to reduced levels of key taste-cell proteinScientists have identified molecular and ...

Losing one’s sense of smell and taste is perhaps one of the more bizarre symptoms of COVID-19. If it’s happened to you, you undoubtedly remember it: Waking up one morning, and suddenly discovering ...

Many workers in the food industry experiencing parosmia — or a long-term distorted sense of smell — find their lives and livelihoods disrupted. And they have trouble accessing help. Anaïs Saint-André ...

(NEW YORK) — Doctors and researchers still have much to learn about the exact symptoms caused by COVID-19, but a group of ear, nose and throat doctors now suspect two such symptoms may be an altered ...