Recent advances are providing new insights into scabies mite biology and genetic mechanisms underlying drug resistance.

Animal testing remains a fundamental part of biomedical research. But as funding evaporates, mice, rats and even monkeys may be euthanized.

Countless dirty secrets swirl around the way animals on factory farms live, but an even uglier one may be the way they sometimes die. “If everyone had to work a day in a meatpacking plant, these ...

Lifestyle Health Scabies symptoms, treatment and prevention tips from health experts as cases remain above average While scabies is common, it's also very misunderstood.

How to spot, treat and prevent scabies, according to the experts Scabies is a common skin infestation caused by the Sarcoptes scabiei mite ...

LOWELL — 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 ...

Inmates in two sections of the Utah State Prison are being treated for scabies after one inmate tested positive. Some areas are temporarily closed to visitors and volunteers.

Lockdown protocols have been activated in a portion of the Utah State Correctional Facility in Salt Lake City as over 100 inmates are being treated for scabies after one person tested positive for ...

Over 100 inmates at the Utah State Correctional Facility in Salt Lake City are being treated for scabies during a prison unit lockdown after one person tested positive for the skin disease.

A scabies outbreak at the Utah State Correctional Facility has prompted the closure of visitor areas and the quarantine of inmates in the affected unit.Prison o ...

A new tool to test for scabies is being trialled by doctors in the Northern Territory, with researchers hoping early diagnosis could prevent people with the skin infestation from developing other ...

Figures show scabies — a nasty skin infection caused by tiny mites — is on the rise, so Dr Catherine Conlon is here to offer the best advice.