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 ...

Scratching an itchy rash worsens inflammation by triggering pain-sensing neurons and activating mast cells, creating a ...

The findings could also explain why people find a good scratch satisfying ... are long gone by the time itching starts. To get to the root of the matter, skin immunologist Dan Kaplan at the ...

“For example, a mosquito usually bites you and then you feel itchy. You don't scratch right when the mosquito is biting you.” Now, in a study published today in Science, researchers at the University ...

5. Itching is contagious, just like yawning Scientists proved this by showing a set of mice videos of other mice scratching. The first group started having a quick scratch too. 6. Contagious ...

It could be one of the reasons why scratching an itch feels good, and why scratching has been evolutionarily conserved for millions of years. Sometimes, as the saying goes, you need to scratch an ...