We all sweat – it’s one of the body’s most normal functions. Running to catch a bus, a stressful meeting and hormonal changes are just some things that can trigger it. And while sweat helps regulate ...

A lack of sweating is a symptom common to a number of health conditions, including psoriasis, lupus, diabetes, or even lung cancer. Medications also can cause a reduction in sweating (hypohidrosis) or ...

Your pituitary is a small gland at the base of your brain. Pituitary disorders develop because of problems with your pituitary gland. A growth (tumor) in or near the pituitary often causes these ...

Sofdra (sofpirnium) is a new topical gel for hyperhidrosis, a common disorder that can lead to gushes of perspiration no matter the weather. In clinical trials, Sofdra (sofpironium), a topical gel, ...

A Johns Hopkins Medicine study involving a dozen people with the inflammatory skin disease hidradenitis suppurativa (HS), which mostly affects skin folds, is believed to be the first to provide ...

In a recent perspective published in Science, researchers explored microfluidic systems with a skin interface in assessing chemical exposure and health status. The skin's eccrine sweat glands are ...

Human sweat does more than cool us down during a workout or a stressful day. It provides you with biological signals that can transform how we monitor health. Emerging research uses this readily ...

Waking up drenched in sweat can be unsettling and disruptive, prompting individuals to seek answers. "A good diagnosis starts with taking a comprehensive history," advises Dr Eva Njenga, an ...

Eccrine sweat glands—millions of which produce our salty, cooling perspiration—are actually found in all mammals. But in most other animals, the fluid from eccrine glands is not used to cool down, but ...