Getty Images. Of all the pesky childhood conditions you'd like to avoid, scabies is probably near the top. This highly contagious and terribly uncomfortable condition often spreads in daycare and ...

Scabs usually heal on their own, but techniques such as keeping the wound clean, moisturizing the area, and avoiding picking the scab can help support the healing process. Keeping a wound clean and ...

In a recent review published in JAMA, researchers described the prevalence, causes, and treatment of infestations from scabies, bedbugs, and body lice, which frequently lead to itching and rashes.

If you have red, itchy rashes on your skin, you may wonder if you have eczema or scabies. They can look similar, but they are different conditions. Scabies happens to about 200 to 300 million people ...

Peta-Anne Zimmerman is affiliated with the Australasian College for Infection Prevention and Control, the Global Outbreak alert and Response Network, and the Collaborative for the Advancement of ...

Health professionals in the UK have noted an "alarming" rise in scabies cases there. Jeffrey Greenberg/Universal Images Group via Getty Images An “alarming” rise in scabies cases has prompted a health ...

A Pennsylvania school district has alerted parents to a scabies outbreak that’s reportedly infected 17 middle school students and one student at an elementary school. An email sent to parents with ...

Michael Head has previously received funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Research England and the UK Department for International Development, and currently receives funding from the UK ...

Long before Melbourne's first COVID-19 lockdown hit, Blake Atmaja and his housemates had already learned how to self-isolate.

CAMP HILL, Pa. (WHTM) – A case of scabies was reported last week at Cedar Cliff High School. Scabies is an infestation of the skin by a tiny mite smaller than a pinhead. According to the Department of ...