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 ...

These animals’ ears showed less swelling and contained fewer neutrophils than the ears of control mice did. Bioengineered mice that were lacking an itch-sensing neuron exhibited a similarly muted ...

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 ...

Itchy skin, joint pain, and foot pain may be some of the more unusual or unexpected symptoms that some women experience ...

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 ...

Kathleen Sheerin, MD Some people even complain of itchy ears. They'll start doing this…kinda what we call the allergic salute and often times that you can do it so much that you can get a crease ...