Atopic dermatitis is one of the most prevalent inflammatory skin diseases. It usually develops in childhood and may persist into adulthood; less frequently, it starts in midlife or late life. The ...

Between an unrelenting itch that interrupts sleep and the social challenges of rashes that can appear anywhere on the body without warning, atopic dermatitis has many ways of raising a person’s stress ...

In spite of its commonality, there are still plenty of unknowns around atopic dermatitis, including the actual cause of the skin condition. Perhaps that’s why there are so many myths surrounding it.

Atopic dermatitis (AD), the most common form of eczema, is a chronic (long-lasting) skin condition linked to an impaired skin barrier and underlying immune-system problems within the skin. Here’s ...

Panel A shows initial lesions of early-onset atopic dermatitis involving the cheek and scalp in an infant at 4 months of age. Panel B shows classic head and neck manifestations of atopic dermatitis in ...