Chicken pox (varicella) is the disease people get when they are exposed to the varicella-zoster virus for the first time.

We tend to think of COVID-19 as a respiratory illness. But, like many viruses, COVID can also affect your skin and cause ...

Are you one of these people who loathes spending time outdoors at dusk as the weather warms and mosquitoes start biting?

Amid warnings of a 'tripledemic' of cold, flu and Covid this winter, millions could bypass the GP queue and directly access ...

It was first approved in 1982 as a topical cream to treat cold sores. Oral tablets also became available; the Food and Drug ...

There are often lengthy waits to get an appointment with a doctor but if you have one of these conditions you can dodge the ...

Amid warnings of a 'tripledemic' of cold, flu and Covid this winter, millions could bypass the GP queue and directly access ...

Journalist Annie Lowrey has a rare disease that causes a near-constant itch that doesn't respond to most treatments. She ...

A 5-gram tube of Zovirax cream runs more than $200. A month’s supply of valacyclovir (500 milligrams) tablets costs between ...

One specific type of viral exanthem that dermatologists have seen with COVID is a morbilliform rash, meaning a measles-like rash. Measles rashes tend to look like small raised bumps that eventually ...