Various types of itch have been described, including those related to skin disease, systemic disease, nerve fiber damage, and psychiatric or psychologic conditions. At any given time, patients may ...

Medically reviewed by Chris Vincent, MD You'll often notice that your skin itches when healing, but the science behind this ...

Pictured is the nerve ending, in green, of a specialized type of itch nerve in the skin of mice. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jul. 10, 2019, issue of Science Translational ...

Although nerve damage cannot be reversed in either disease ... familial neuropathic chronic itch, which was shown to be associated with COL6A5, a gene, which encodes a protein from which the ...