It can seem like we spend countless hours and endless amounts of money to keep the skin on our face looking and feeling its best—while the skin on other areas of our body often gets ignored. Though ...

Insect bites. Sunburn. Dandruff. Just thinking about all those things probably makes you itchy and want to start scratching.

Medical science has deciphered many of the body’s workings, down to the level of the gene, and isn’t too far from using stem cells to repair its hobbled organs. But in many ways, the human body ...

What’s common between a scratchy sweater, a mosquito bite, and poison ivy? A brush with any of them guarantees an itchy spot on the skin. Scratching that itch is extremely tempting because of how ...

One of the greatest pleasures in life is to scratch an itch — in both the real and figurative sense. Although scratching an itch provides immediate (albeit temporary) relief, it may actually trigger ...

Medically reviewed by Casey Gallagher, MD Key Takeaways Dry skin can cause intense itching, especially in winter. Diabetes ...

Having an itchy foot can be pretty annoying, especially when you have to go through the motions of taking off a shoe and sock to scratch it — and even more so when it seems like there’s no physical ...

People with Alzheimer’s disease might itch and scratch or pick at their skin for many reasons. It may be hard for your loved one to let you know what the problem is, so you’ll need to pay close ...