A tickly itch, a painful scratch, or the feeling of a refreshing breeze—the skin is teaming with nerve endings that drive these sensations. Scientists are getting into the epidermis to explore how ...

These patients had sustained damage to their median nerve, which runs down the arm and provides motor and sensory links to ...

Itching seems simple on the surface. Something irritates your skin, nerves send an “itch” signal to your brain, you scratch, problem solved. But your body’s itch detection system is ...

A Cleveland Clinic expert answers our questions about Botox—and she says there's one key nutrient that could make all the ...

State-of-the-art tests like Electro Myography, nerve conduction studies and nerve or skin biopsies may corroborate or refute a doctor's initial suspicions that the pain is in fact caused by ...

The varicella-zoster virus causes chickenpox. After a person has chickenpox, the virus travels from the skin to the nerves and remains dormant. Sometimes, the virus reactivates and travels from ...