This article was medically reviewed by Caroline Chang, MD, a board-certified dermatologist and member of the Prevention Medical Review Board, on June 27, 2019. Your weekend pedicure, post-workout ...

Thick, yellow, crumbling nails aren’t what you want to see when you look at your feet. At best, toenail fungus is embarrassing. At worst, it can create entry points for worse infections leading to ...

Athlete’s foot is a fungal infection of the foot otherwise known as Tinea pedis. This fungal infection is often a mild condition that can, in rare instances, erupt into a full-blown bacterial ...

The fungus that causes athlete's foot and other skin and toenail infections may have lost its ability to sexually reproduce as it adapted to grow on human hosts. The discovery that this species may be ...

Q: As a kid and into adulthood, I was susceptible to athlete’s foot. I finally got rid of it with advice from a World War II vet I knew. He said that in the Navy, the men were advised to pee on their ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Q: Can you recommend any home cures for athlete’s foot and toenail fungus? My husband has both problems and has tried various products and prescriptions to ...

Moms and football coaches had it right all along. A new study confirms that foot infections like athlete's foot and toenail fungus do spread from person to person among families and probably others ...

The fungi responsible for toenail infections and athlete's foot may reproduce by making clones of itself. According to a new paper published Wednesday in Genetics, the genome of the fungus responsible ...

Toenail fungus, medically known as Onychomycosis (On-i-ko-mi-KO-sis), is one of the most frequently treated foot problems that accounts for more than half of the nail abnormalities. It is a fungal ...