If you know anything about hidradenitis suppurativa, you can imagine how this chronic inflammatory skin condition can interfere not just with a person’s quality of life but also their sex life. Also ...

Nick Blackmer is a librarian, fact-checker, and researcher with more than 20 years of experience in consumer-facing health and wellness content. Imagine struggling, treating, and living with a chronic ...

Most people experience a hernia as a bump under the skin. They occur when an internal organ, most often the small intestine, ...

Riley Moscicki, a 25-year-old public relations specialist from Rochester, New York, never had skin problems growing up. But ...

Jessica Butler, 29, was diagnosed with hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), a chronic disease that causes boil-like lumps to form under the skin, when she was a teenager. Her symptoms were pretty ...

Within a week, however, the bumps grew to the size of a quarter. I showed them to my mom, who thought they were strange. That’s because the mounds were hard and also sensitive to touch. Pus started ...