Paronychia is a type of nail infection, most commonly caused by the bacteria called Staphylococcus aureus, which affects the ...

Nail fungal infections are the most common diseases of the nails, making up about 50 percent of nail abnormalities. Fungus is ...

In the Majengo area of Nyeri town, Jane Muthoni washes her dishes with a lot of pain. One of her fingers is swollen and turned red. "I finished washing my children's clothes using a detergent sold ...

A four-year-old boy in China needed his finger amputated after his father took him to a foot massage parlour for a fungal nail infection. The treatment led to gangrene. The massage parlour was ...

Here we will discuss the causes, symptoms, and treatment for fungal nail infections. A common fungal infection, Onychomycosis is also known as tinea unguium that leads to brittle, thickened or ...

Onychomycosis, or fungal infection of the nail, most often affects the toenails. Infected nails usually have a thick, yellow appearance and can become coarse and brittle (see Figure 4).

Swimmers have been warned to give seals their distance amid fears of a “seal finger” infection if bitten by the aquatic mammals that are gathering in their hundreds around the UK coastline.

The distal subungual onychomycosis (DSO) type is still the most common, but don’t forget that onychomycosis and nail ...