You cannot get Lyme disease if you come into contact with someone’s sneeze, cough, or blood. Learn when it is contagious and ...

When your pet heads outside, they can come into contact with some pesky pests. Here are the most common ones to look out for ...

Ahead, 10 itches you should never scratch. Get The Healthy by Reader's Digest newsletter  Itches you shouldn't scratch 1.

Researchers identified a strong correlation between the milk microbiome of mothers with allergic disease and the season of ...

Scratching where it itches reduces the presence of potentially harmful bacteria on the skin, studies in mice show.

It is an allergy that strikes only four out of every ... than a fortnight after she went into hospital to have her first baby induced. She was admitted to Poole Hospital in Dorset on the night ...

Most insect stings cause only minor discomfort. Stings can happen anywhere on the body and can be painful. Yellow jackets cause the most allergic reactions in the U.S. Stings from these insects cause ...

For example, we know if you’re exposed to allergens very early on in life, as a baby, you’re much more likely to be protected from developing allergies later on,” he said. “There’s also ...

Emma Raducanu has revealed she refused to use an antiseptic spray to treat insect bites for fear of failing ... something. I'm allergic, I guess. "They flared up and swelled up really a lot." ...

It took doctors a long time, however, to figure out the unlikely cause: alpha-gal syndrome, also known as red meat allergy, which Wallace probably got from lone star tick bites in her backyard in ...

An elderly Townsville man has been hospitalised with dengue fever, marking the region's first breakthrough case of the mosquito-borne virus in five years. There have been just four cases of ...

The exact moment a man suffered multiple snake bites on his hand has been caught on camera after he mistakenly identified the reptile as a ‘harmless tree snake’. On Tuesday night, after ...