We've only started to understand that kind of itch recently. Similarly, we didn't really ... understand chronic itch very well until recently. And we're in a period, I'd say in the last 20 years ...

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

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 ...

On thinking of itch as a disease When scientists said that itching is a disease in and of itself, what they meant was that chronic itching changes the body's own circuitry in a way that begets ...