Discover why your skin feels itchier at night and learn practical ways to stop nighttime itching for better sleep.

Most people associate sneezing, runny nose, coughing, and hives as a reaction to some types of allergens. Surprisingly, to ...

It was, says 48-year-old Andrea Dowden, 'one of the worst experiences of my life'. The raised, red scabs, which seemed to ...

Cicadas will likely first emerge during the third week of April or when areas experience “good rain,” cicada expert Gene ...

A new tool to test for scabies is being trialled by doctors in the Northern Territory, with researchers hoping early ...

The Lowell Transitional Living Center, the largest homeless shelter and support organization north of Boston, is treating an outbreak of scabies in its building on Middlesex Street, ...

Cicadas will likely first emerge in Pennsylvania later this spring. Here's where and how long they'll buzz around.

A scabies outbreak at the Utah State Correctional Facility has prompted the closure of visitor areas and the quarantine of ...

Scabies is a highly contagious pimple-like rash caused by the parasitic human itch mite, Sarcoptes scabiei var. hominis. Human scabies is most commonly spread by direct, prolonged skin-to-skin ...

Scabies is a contagious skin condition caused by the human itch mite, which burrows into the upper layer of the skin to live and lay eggs, according to the Centers for Disease Control. Symptoms ...

"And you can't really itch them because it feels like you're just ... Scabies is a microscopic mite that burrows under the skin to lay eggs, affecting more than 400 million people each year ...

Kritsky said cicadas have been reported to lead to oak leaf itch mite, but that’s mainly when people spend time under oak trees 6 to 10 weeks after the cicadas have laid their eggs.