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

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

It occurs when the sweat ducts in the dermis (the deeper layer of skin) are blocked, preventing sweat from reaching the surface. This type of rash can be more persistent and very uncomfortable. What ...

Chronic itch is miserable ... you actually damage the skin in a way that then makes the skin more itchy because you end up with histamine in the skin. And histamine is one of the hormones that ...

And the problem is that when you scratch or you damage your skin in order to stop the itch, to interrupt the itch, you actually damage the skin in a way that then makes the skin more itchy because ...