The research highlights why avoiding scratching is essential for healthier skin. Scratching may feel good in the moment, but it often makes rashes worse by increasing inflammation. While it can help ...

The new administration's freeze on foreign aid (affecting America's sweeping anti-HIV initiative PEPFAR) has raised concerns about the dispersal of the pills taken daily by those who are HIV positive.

I turned 50 during the pandemic and, like most people, I put off all nonessential health care, including my shingles vaccine. Big mistake. When the telltale red bumps of shingles cropped up on my face ...

Whether your rash is itchy, bumpy, red or blistering, it's important to know what's causing it — and how serious it is. But with so many types of skin rashes, it can be tough even for ...

Candidiasis, or thrush, is a fungal infection that can inflame the penis tip and cause itching. In some instances, a blotchy rash or thick white discharge may accompany the itching. Genital warts ...

Shaving with a razor is a quick, cheap and efficient way of banishing unwanted hair, but it occasionally comes with an unwanted side effect: shaving rash, or as it's more commonly known razor burn.

There are three types of heat rash, depending on severity: Miliaria rubra is uncomfortable and itchy. However, developing the rash isn’t usually enough to visit a doctor unless you have more ...

With jock itch, the rash starts in the groin, where the torso and legs meet. With scrotal eczema, it begins on the scrotum, though it may affect other areas too. Jock itch is curable with ...

Shingles is a viral infection that causes blistery, itchy, and painful rashes. These outbreaks can occur anywhere ... An illness that weakens the immune system, such as HIV/AIDS Undergoing radiation ...

Learn more about home remedies for a poison ivy rash. It is important for a person to avoid itching if they have a poison ivy rash. Itching can cause breaks in the skin and lead to infection.

A 31-year-old woman of Middle Eastern descent is referred for evaluation of a rash affecting her upper back and lower ... neither of which improved the clinical appearance or itching. She has a ...

Dementia is a huge public health challenge, and the situation is expected to get even worse in the coming decades. New research predicts that by 2060, around a million US adults will develop ...