For symptoms of scalp psoriasis, home treatments like olive oil, oatmeal, and apple cider vinegar may provide relief and make ...

If you've got itchy skin, it could be that a microbe making its home on your body has produced a little chemical that's directly acting on your skin's nerve cells and triggering the urge to scratch.

Your skin didn’t suddenly “change its mind”. It’s responding to a hormonal handbrake that tugs at collagen, oil, and moisture ...

When most people think of burn injuries, they think of damage to the skin. Burns also affect many other areas of the body because the skin plays such an important role in protecting the body from the ...

Scientists at Harvard Medical School have shown for the first time that the common skin bacterium, Staphylococcus aureus, can cause itching by acting directly on nerve cells. The new findings, based ...

Every soft caress of wind, searing burn and seismic rumble is detected by our skin’s tangle of touch sensors. David Ginty has spent his career cataloging the neurons beneath everyday sensations. Like ...

Harpreet Bhasin is a biology major with minors in Biotechnology and Public Health and he is a 2024-25 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University.

That persistent urge to scratch your palms can range from mildly annoying to completely distracting. While many people dismiss palm itching as a minor inconvenience, this common symptom can actually ...