You might laugh. You might dismiss it as absurd. But what you're about to hear is nothing short of heartbreaking. Imagine a ...

Pica is an eating disorder in which a person compulsively consumes items that are not food and have no nutritional purpose. While it can occasionally appear in childhood or during certain stages of ...

Our skin is often covered with tiny imperfections—blemishes, moles, cuts and spots that we're all guilty of picking at from time to time. Consider the temptation of that bulbous yellow head of a spot ...

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. You may have seen someone chewing chalk, eating clay, or even craving ash, and wondered ...

While hospitalizations for eating disorders are down overall, one category is rising at an alarming rate, says the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. From 1999 to 2009, hospitalizations for ...

Under-reported and less talked about, pica, an eating disorder , apparently characterised the story of Shukuru Kisonga, a 16-year-old boy from Ruvuma Region who recently made headlines for surviving ...