You may dismiss it as an insect bite when bumps or bites appear on your body. But when those bumps grow, become tender, or damage your skin, you may question what caused the spots. A skin disease ...

Anyone who has ever had a canker sore knows just how uncomfortable an ulcer can be. These painful, slow-healing sores can appear anywhere on your body, from your mouth to your skin to the lining of ...

Some bugs, including ticks and chigoe fleas, can burrow into, lay eggs, or become lodged under your skin. Removal can depend on the type of bug that is under your skin. There are a number of bugs that ...

Necrobiosis lipoidica (NL) is a rare inflammatory skin condition that can cause patches of skin that can sometimes develop into ulcers. According to the American Diabetes Association, NL typically ...

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Irish dermatologists are reporting two more cases of a rare skin ulcer known as reactive infectious mucocutaneous eruption (RIME) in teenage males who were infected with COVID-19. A similar case in an ...

If you’ve had a blood clot in a vein, also known as deep vein thrombosis (DVT), you could have symptoms that linger after you’ve recovered from the clot. It’s a condition called post-thrombotic ...