These pictures of common bug bites can help you figure out what bit you, and how you should seek treatment.

Both bug bites and hives can cause red, itchy bumps on your skin. While it can be difficult to tell them apart, learning key features and characteristics of each can help. Hives and bug bites are ...

Researchers and health officials are calling for Chagas disease, spread by the 'kissing bug,' be considered endemic, aka regularly occurring.

Whether it’s a Husker game, a pumpkin patch, anywhere you’re spending time outside, you may have encountered these little ...

Carrie Madormo, RN, MPH, is a health writer. She has over a decade of experience as a registered nurse, practicing in a variety of fields, such as pediatrics, oncology, chronic pain, and public health ...

They are known as "kissing bugs," but instead of spreading love, they transmit a parasitic disease that can be deadly. Chagas disease is considered endemic; it's present in 21 countries in the ...

Pillows are gross, science confirms. How gross, you ask? Well, according to a new study by British health care provider Barts and the London NHS Trust, "up to a third of the weight of your pillow ...

Spiders and cockroaches aren’t the only creepy crawly bugs wandering your house in the night. There’s another that burrows inside your bed, couch and curtains. No more than the width of a credit card, ...

A bed bug outbreak has reportedly been detected at a Google office in Manhattan, raising concerns among employees about ...