We’ve all been there: that impossible-to-reach itch that has you twisting, stretching, and generally looking ridiculous while ...

A couple of years after a kind doctor rhythmically thumped a series of “tender points” and declared me diagnosed with ...

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 ...

But there’s more to scratching than gating in the spinal cord. Deep brain structures stimulated by touch send signals back ...

The itch from bug bites, rashes, and other skin conditions can sometimes be so overpowering that it feels impossible to avoid scratching them. But new research explains why you might want to hold off ...

Scratching a mosquito bite can offer a moment of bliss, and now scientists know why: scratching activates an immune response that helps to protect the skin against harmful infections, at least in mice ...

Mosquito bites are itchy and we tend to scratch itchy things. The scratching feels good in the short term but tends to hasten and exacerbate swelling and inflammation. This leads to more scratching ...