NIGHT sweats, weight loss and feeling more tired than usual all sounded like classic menopause symptoms – or so Jessica Farrigdown thought. It was only when another, slightly ...

Out of the blue in July 2022, Barbara Green woke up in the middle of the night itching all over — from the top of her head to the soles of her feet. She’d had no health problems and led an active ...

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 ...

Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a chronic disease that affects an increasing number of children and adults. The skin is dry and ...

Itching and rashes often occur together, but itchy skin alone can happen with dry skin, bug bites, some health conditions, or a reaction to certain medications. The causes of skin itching, or pruritis ...

For more than 50 years Martyn Pring's life was dominated by an 'uncontrollable' urge to itch - and nothing doctors suggested seemed to help. It began after a bout of German measles when he was two, ...

Beth Skwarecki is Lifehacker’s Senior Health Editor and has been writing about health, fitness, and science here since 2015. Beth was the recipient of the 2017 Carnegie Science Award in science ...