We tend to think of COVID-19 as a respiratory illness. But, like many viruses, COVID can also affect your skin and cause ...

An itchy scalp might seem like a minor annoyance, but health experts are warning that if it becomes persistent, it could be ...

Journalist Annie Lowrey has a rare disease that causes a near-constant itch that doesn't respond to most treatments. She ...

But reviewers say it's totally worth it! After all, we've all woken up before with our eyes looking like the opening shot of ...

Antihistamines reduce the activity of the body’s histamine receptors, which can play a role in allergic reactions and itching. This may reduce swelling and itchiness. More recent research on ...

Targeting the kappa opioid receptor with an agonist is a new pharmacy strategy for treating moderate to severe CKD-associated ...

The appeal of whole-body scans is clear: Who wouldn’t want to catch an illness before it causes serious damage? The problem, according to experts, is that, except in very rare cases ...

This is all done by biometric impedance analysis (BIA), which involves sending a small electrical current through to different body parts. From there, the smart scales use data from the speed of ...

Itch, he explains, is the body’s way of detecting threats such as skin infections before they can take hold. Subscribe to Technology Networks’ daily newsletter, delivering breaking science news ...

Hives — also known as urticaria — is a skin reaction that causes itchy welts that can range ... which reduce or block histamines (chemicals in the body that trigger hives), include: While ...

Professor Hawthorne said scabies can be "very itchy and irritating," but was not ... that is applied over the whole body, the NHS said. Despite being highly infectious, it can take up to eight ...