Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . During the study, 51% of patients reported being bothered by pruritus. Patients extremely bothered by the ...

Starving for attention: Malnutrition screening in a community cancer center. This is an ASCO Meeting Abstract from the 2015 Palliative and Supportive Care in Oncology Symposium. This abstract does not ...

Some patients nearing the end of life experience severe itching, which can be extremely distressing. The symptom has a number of causes but can be managed Abstract Pruritis (severe itching of the skin ...

This Journal feature begins with a case vignette highlighting a common clinical problem. Evidence supporting various strategies is then presented, followed by a review of formal guidelines, when they ...

CNS disorders rarely trigger pruritus, but pruritus is commonly associated with peripheral neuropathies and disorders of mixed or undetermined aetiology with neurological involvement Treatment for ...

Aprepitant is the first commercially available drug of a new class of neurokinin-1–receptor antagonists for treating chemotherapy-induced nausea and vomiting. The dominant ligand for the neurokinin-1 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Linerixibat greatly reduced IL-31 levels over 24 weeks, which was linked to an improvement in pruritus. As early ...

Pruritus among patients with nondialysis-dependent chronic kidney disease is associated with hospitalization and death. Pruritus is common among patients with nondialysis-dependent chronic kidney ...

A recently published case series illustrates how a treatment approved last year for two conditions associated with pruritus could be useful in alleviating itch in patients with a broad variety of ...

Pruritus simply means itching. It can be associated with several disorders, including dry skin, skin disease, pregnancy, and rarely, cancer. An itch may be confined to just one part of your body, or ...

"Pruritus in older people is most often linked to physiological changes in the skin caused by aging, leading to significant xerosis. However, before attributing it to aging, we need to rule out ...