Scratching an itch can bring a contradictory wave of pleasure and misery. A mouse study on scratching, reported in the Jan. 31 Science, fleshes out this ...

Medically reviewed by Josephine Hessert, DOEar pain has numerous causes. Most are treatable, though some are serious. Conditions responsible for ear pain can strike anyone at any age.If you begin to ...

These animals’ ears showed less swelling and contained fewer neutrophils than the ears of control mice did. Bioengineered ...

Forget what your parents told you, scratching an itch may be good for you ... haptens to induce eczema-like symptoms on mice’s ears. The ears of mice that could scratch at will swelled up ...

Scratching an itchy rash really does make it worse. Now we know why, thanks to new research that uncovers how scratching aggravates inflammation and swelling in a mouse model of a type of eczema ...