Itchy feet can have many harmless causes, but experts warn persistent itching could be a symptom of medical conditions ...

So you had a whole day without a single peep from your feet. And when you get into bed at night, all of a sudden your feet feel itchy. You scratch the itch and go back to resting. But the itch is ...

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 ...

Despite the saying “happiness is having a scratch for every itch,” itching often makes the itchy skin condition worse. So why is the instinct so strong? In a study with mice, researchers from the ...

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

If you have an incessant itch on your right foot that just won’t go away no matter how many times you take your shoe and sock off to scratch it, you’re probably wondering what it means when your right ...

Russell has a PhD in the history of medicine, violence, and colonialism. His research has explored topics including ethics, science governance, and medical involvement in violent contexts. Russell has ...

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 ...

Itchy feet in people with diabetes can be caused by poor circulation or damage to the nerve fibers in the legs and feet. High blood sugar can contribute to both conditions. Diabetes that isn’t ...

I remember it well: our dark winter of itch when the kids were small. It started with a note sent home—years before the pandemic—that my child had been exposed, not to a deadly virus but to lice.