You may think of your belly button as just a scar from your umbilical cord, but it's actually a bustling hub for bacteria. A ...

For generations, applying pure ghee on the navel before bed has been a common bedtime ritual. But today, it’s being revisited ...

Navel stones are not harmful, and they usually don’t cause pain. Your doctor can likely remove it in their office. You can prevent them from coming back by keeping your navel clean.

Summer is the season to celebrate citrus—bright, juicy, and bursting with flavor. Right now, fresh lemons, mandarins, and ...

The navel, a.k.a. the belly button (or, more clinically, the umbilicus) is really just a scar that marks the spot where the umbilical cord was attached. Everyone has one in the same spot — and ...

In other words, navel gazing is hard-wired into the human libido. Americans are just now finally coming around. Take the U.S. Naval Observatory--ever wonder what really goes on there?

A navel stone is sometimes called an omphalolith or umbolith. It is a condition where substances like sebum, or skin oil, hair, dead skin cells, and dirt can accumulate and form a hardball.

Navel stones can develop slowly and unnoticed for a long time. Here are some things to know, what to look for, and what to do if you have one.

It is a semi-dwarf, meaning that a bud from a navel orange tree was grafted onto a rootstock of a species known as hardy orange (Poncirus trifoliata). It’s a rootstock that controls the growth ...