It's one of the most common infections of the hand that nail biters are all too familiar with. Better known as a hangnail infection, paronychia is an infection of the skin folds around the toe and ...

Five months ago, a teenager suffered an injured cuticle while trimming his toenail. Bacitracin and alcohol (recommended by a physician friend of the family) was unsuccessful. The lesion oozes and ...

In the case of a severely infected great-toe paronychia, does it matter whether or not you start antibiotics before you perform partial nail removal? —Gregory H. Tuttle, MD, Chapel Hill, N.C.

The nail is the distal keratinized plate that covers the outermost dorsal part of the finger. It arises from the nail matrix, which is the germinal part of the nail plate under the nail. The nail fold ...

According to the US National Institutes of Health (NIH), paronychia is among the most common infections of the hand. Paronychia is more common in women than in men, with a female-to-male ratio of 3 to ...

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 by ...