Ticks are spreading globally and bringing familiar conditions such as Lyme disease with them, as well as totally new ones.

The FDA has approved Sanofi and Regeneron’s Dupixent as a treatment for adults with bullous pemphigoid, a rare chronic autoimmune skin condition that causes severe itching, painful blisters and open ...

The herpes virus that commonly causes cold sores affects how tightly coiled our DNA is and makes it shrink, all to help ...

Other early symptoms of Lyme disease mimic what you might experience with the flu: a fever, chills, muscle aches, and swollen ...

Nikki A. Levin, MD, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Medicine, Division of Dermatology, University of Massachusetts Medical School, Worcester, MA. Note: The author reported no actual or potential ...

The folded-up little (or for some people, cavernous) hole that is your belly button can harbor lint, dead skin cells, bacteria and fungi, and other gunk. And, if your skin barrier gets broken ...

Broken, missing or mutated genes are root causes of most cancers. Decades of cancer research at Fred Hutch Cancer Center have given our scientists a deep understanding of other diseases — unrelated to ...

but by the biology of each patient’s disease. Guests heard from IPCR leaders Pete Nelson, MD, and Dan Lin, MD, as well as Fred Hutch President and Director Thomas J. Lynch, Jr., MD. Travel writer and ...

Skin diseases are pathologic conditions that affect the body's surfaces (also called the integument), including skin, hair, nails and associated glands. They can involve all layers of the skin and ...