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 ...

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 ...

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 ...