Skin cancer is the most common type of cancer in the U.S., and it has increased dramatically in the last 50 years. Melanoma, ...

Sea lice can be found along the entire North Carolina coast, The N&O previously reported. Each summer, thimble jellyfish make ...

What are sea lice? Experts explain how to treat itchy, stinging rashes from the tiny sea creatures filling South Carolina beaches this summer.

Is there any way you’re not going to wonder if it’s head lice? Head lice are ... are an infestation of the “human itch mite” (aka sarcoptes scabiei var. hominis). The scabies mites burrow into the ...

However, sweat isn’t their main food source. Ramsey suggests that flies lick our skin to replenish salts, but when they’re really hungry, they’ll turn to decomposing matter or human food. If they land ...

Lice are tiny parasites that live on human beings and feed on blood. They seldom cause serious medical problems, but they are both annoying and contagious. There are three types of lice that can ...

School’s back and that means head lice will once again plague households with primary school-aged children. Here’s what you can to do to bust those nits.

Pubic lice, also known as "crabs," are a kind of lice that cause infestations in the genital area. It is spread primarily through sexual contact.

Pubic lice fall within the Pthirus pubis family of louse, different from head lice. Learn how you can get crabs and what to do once you see them.

The appalling conditions in overcrowded tent camps, along with summer heat and the collapse of sanitation is causing skin diseases.

Doctors are wrestling with more than 103,000 cases of lice and scabies and 65,000 cases of skin rashes, according to the World Health Organization.

Israel-Hamas Conflict Lice, scabies, rashes plague Palestinian children as skin disease runs rampant in Gaza's tent camps ...