Welcome to Ask Doctor Zac, a weekly column from news.com.au. This week, Dr Zac Turner explores if there are really tiny mites living on your face.

It might give you the creepy-crawlies, but you almost certainly have tiny mites living in the pores of your face right now. They're known as Demodex or eyelash mites, and just about every adult human ...

If you are reading this, you are probably not alone. Most people on Earth are habitats for mites that spend the majority of their brief lives burrowed, head-first, in our hair follicles, primarily of ...

While the scanning electron micrograph is genuine and unaltered, it shows the head of a silkworm moth caterpillar and not a Demodex mite, as posts on social media misleadingly claimed. To verify this ...

Over 20 million Americans have dry eye disease, which means that their eyes don’t produce enough tears or their tears evaporate too quickly. Dry air, wind, certain autoimmune diseases, medications ...

Demodex folliculorum are eight-legged mites measuring 0.01-inch-long and inhabit almost all human beings. The mites live on the nipples and sometimes lips and eyelashes hence bearing the name face ...

On this episode of American Horror Story: Beauty, I’m sorry to report that, on a microscopic level, some creepy, crawly characters are living on your face. Almost everyone has a type of mite called ...

Q I am a 29-year-old woman, and I am concerned that I might have mites in my areola. I found one when I tried to squeeze what ...

The estimated trillions of periodical brood cicadas that emerged in multiple U.S. states this year may be gone for the foreseeable future, but some people are feeling the painful, itchy remnants of a ...