Itching can be uncomfortable, but it’s a normal part of your skin’s immune response to external threats. When you’re itching from an encounter with poison ivy or mosquitoes, consider that your urge to ...

Your itching skin is driving you mad but the doctor's appointment is still a couple days away? There are few home remedies that can bring relief. Christin Klose/dpa If you are plagued by itchy, ...

MINNEAPOLIS — As winter finally makes its presence felt, so does a symptom of the frigid air. Dry skin is forming and many of you might treat it in a painful, yet relieving way. Why does dry skin itch ...

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 ...

Scratching an itch can bring a contradictory wave of pleasure and misery. A mouse study on scratching, reported in the Jan. 31 Science, fleshes out this head-scratching paradox and could point out ...

A new study conducted in mice suggests that, although it's not all good, our urge to scratch at itchy skin may have an evolutionary benefit. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an ...

Fortunately, most of these conditions are treatable, making it likely for symptoms to reduce or subside with the proper remedies. Of all the pesky and uncomfortable things that can happen to your body ...

It’s annoying, uncomfortable, and tends to occur more commonly as we get older. “Dermatologists start to see an uptick in the presentation of itchy skin around age 50, and it continues to increase as ...