Itching

Vaginal Itching and Discharge

Atrioventricular Block

Thirddegree AV block

Bundle Branch and Fascicular Block

Health Tip: Coping With Itching During Pregnancy

-- Hormones can trigger many pregnancy discomforts, including itching on the belly, palms of the hands and soles of the feet. The Womenshealth.gov website lists these suggestions to help ease itching...

Itch And Pain Have Separate Brain Circuits

US scientists have found a molecule that triggers the sensation of itching in mice. They say the finding solves a mystery about itching: it is not a low level of pain but a separately wired circuit w...

Drugs that inhibit buildup of acylcarnitines may block axonal degeneration

Anyone whose hand or foot has "fallen asleep" has an idea of the numbness and tingling often experienced by people with peripheral nerve damage. The condition also can cause a range of other symptoms,...

Itching can have a visual trigger, new research reveals

(Medical Xpress)—Itching is so contagious that simply seeing an image of an itch stimulus – such as ants or an insect bite – can trigger a physical response, new research suggests.

Do your neuroses make you more prone to 'contagious' itching?

(Medical Xpress)—Have you ever experienced the feelings of itchiness while watching someone else scratch? Scientists University of Sussex and the University of Hull have found the part of the brain...

Friday Weird Science: How much sun could a good beard block if a good beard could block sun?

It’d block the sun that a good beard could block if a good beard could block sun*Sci is at Neurotic Physiology today, looking a study oh how much UV radiation protection you really get from a...

‘Sensory’ block promise for postop knee pain

Using adductor canal block rather than femoral nerve block for analgesia after knee surgery could minimize muscle weakness and risk for falls, a study in Anesthesiology suggests.

Teleflex introduces new continuous peripheral nerve block catheter

Teleflex Incorporated has introduced a new continuous peripheral nerve block catheter for clinicians who use ultrasound-guidance when placing nerve block catheters.

Itching to do a TAP block?

Isolated itching of external auditory canal: clinicopathological study with immunohistochemical determination of antimicrobial peptides.

Objective:This study aimed to demonstrate the histological and immunohistological features of skin biopsy specimens from patients complaining of isolated itching of the external auditory canal.Materia...

The safety and efficacy of alcaftadine 0.25% ophthalmic solution for the prevention of itching associated with allergic conjunctivitis.

Abstract Objective: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the safety and clinical efficacy of alcaftadine 0.25% ophthalmic solution, a new topical anti-allergic agent for the prevention of the sig...

Nerve conduction block using combined thermoelectric cooling and high frequency electrical stimulation.

Conduction block of peripheral nerves is an important technique for many basic and applied neurophysiology studies. To date, there has not been a technique which provides a quickly initiated and rever...

Patients with polycythemia vera have the worst impairment of quality of life among patients with newly diagnosed myeloproliferative neoplasms.

Abstract The quality of life (QoL) at the time of the diagnosis of myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN) has, so far, not been studied. One hundred and seventy-nine MPN patients; 80 ET, 73 PV, 22 PMF and...