Journalist Annie Lowrey has a rare disease that causes a near-constant itch that doesn't respond to most treatments. She likens the itchiness to a... Chronic itch is miserable. Scientists are just ...

I remember it well: our dark winter of itch when the kids were small. It started with a note sent home—years before the pandemic—that my child had been exposed, not to a deadly virus but to lice.

Do you feel an itch, right now, working its way down the back of your neck? Scratching temporarily relieves that itch, but can also make it worse. Now researchers at the Center for the Study of Itch ...

A couple of years after a kind doctor rhythmically thumped a series of “tender points” and declared me diagnosed with ...

For millions of Britons it is one of the most frustrating – even distressing – health problems, yet one rarely spoken about. Chronic itching, or pruritus, affects at least one in six adults, and for ...

CHICAGO, Feb. 6, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- Sibel Health, an award-winning medical technology company that develops advanced wearable sensors, software, and AI/ML algorithms for clinical trials and clinical ...

Scratch an itch and you get ... aaaaaah. Now scientists have watched spinal nerves transmit that relief signal to the brain in monkeys, a possible step toward finding new treatments for persistent ...

We’ve all been there: that impossible-to-reach itch that has you twisting, stretching, and generally looking ridiculous while ...

Welcome to “CSI: Mosquito,” where we try to figure out why we’re itchy all of a sudden. Oh, wait. I guess the title gives it away. A mosquito bit us. Another case solved! And yet, just as every ...