Foot warts can be common warts, plantar warts, or periungal warts. They develop when a certain strand of HPV infects a cut or open wound. You can get rid of them with salicylic acid products or by ...

Beth Skwarecki is Lifehacker’s Senior Health Editor, and holds certifications as a personal trainer and weightlifting coach. She has been writing about health for over 10 years. Home "remedies" are ...

Warts are one of those skin conditions almost everyone encounters at some point, yet they remain oddly misunderstood. One day your skin is fine, the next there’s a rough little bump that wasn’t ...

Routine procedures such as splinter removal and wart treatment are increasingly billed as surgeries, leading to unexpected costs for patients. When George Lai of Portland, Oregon, took his toddler son ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some kids may take having a wart in stride; others may feel ashamed. Sometimes a child only gets one wart and forgets about it.

There are so many skin concerns that are easy to diagnose yet hard to treat, including warts. If you haven't dealt with warts personally before, you've probably seen one on someone's finger or hand — ...

Q: I’ve had a wart on the inside of my thumb for the past few years. It was about the size of a small pea and just seemed like tough skin. It didn’t hurt so I didn’t panic over it, but I wanted it ...

Dear Dr. Gott: I saw your article about the person who had a wart removed by rubbing chalk on it. I had a wart on my hand for seven years. Then I started teaching, using a blackboard and chalk. A ...

You probably associate warts with witches, frogs or any other number of unfairly maligned figures, but it's time to rip off the band-aid: Warts can literally happen to anyone, whether or not they hang ...