Even if there are no actual insects around, this phenomenon is very real. Here's why it happens and what you can do about it.

Psychologists have also used the terms psychogenic itching, psychogenic formication and psychogenic pruritus to describe itchy sensations with no physical cause, though these terms seem to come up in ...

Living in New York City, I occasionally see local news headlines and hear stories from friends of friends about the horrors of bed bugs. Although I have yet to face the nightmarish ordeal myself, I do ...

Background Psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (PNES) are classified with other functional neurological symptoms as ‘Conversion Disorder’, but there are reasons to wonder whether this symptomatology ...

Pruritus can occur at any stage of PBC disease or biochemical control, and is experienced in varying degrees of severity by up to 90% of people living with PBC. 1 The first line treatment for PBC ...

Key Efficacy Outcomes: Pruritus and Sleep Interference Over a 24-week period, patients receiving linerixibat experienced a statistically significant reduction in worst itch scores compared to placebo, ...

ORIGINAL ARTICLES . PUBLIC HEALTH. Mechanisms and clinical management of pain *. Patrick Raymond Nicolas Andre Ghislain Stump I; Gisele da Silva Dalben II. I Pain Group of Hospital das Clínicas, ...

London: GSK plc has announced the New Drug Application (NDA) for linerixibat, an investigational targeted inhibitor of the ileal bile acid transporter (IBAT), has been accepted for review by the US ...

Ustekinumab offers superior itch relief compared to guselkumab in severe psoriasis, despite guselkumab's better skin lesion improvement. The study involved 108 patients, with 90.4% of ustekinumab ...