Most People Aren't Exfoliating This Body Part Enough—and It's a Health Hazard originally appeared on Parade.

Athlete’s foot, medically known as tinea pedis, is a fungal infection that primarily affects the skin on the feet. It’s characterized by symptoms such as itching, burning and a distinct bad odor.

A fungal skin infection happens when a fungus (such as yeast or mold) grows and creates a reaction on your skin surface.

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 ...

HEALTH chiefs have laid out the symptoms of a common infection that you might notice when you are putting on your socks. The ...

These are classic signs of athlete’s foot. Doctors call it tinea pedis and it’s a common fungal infection, affecting 15 to 25 percent of people at any one time. “It’s flaky dead skin […] ...

As summer begins in earnest, more people complain of skin diseases in July and August when humidity increases. In particular, ...

Athlete’s foot, sometimes called tinea pedis, is the most common of all fungal infections. Its symptoms can be irritating and uncomfortable, causing itching, stinging and burning to the affected ...

These are classic signs of athlete’s foot. Doctors call it tinea pedis and it’s a common fungal infection, affecting 15 to 25 percent of people at any one time. “It’s flaky dead skin […] ...

More than 100 types of fungi live on the healthy human foot, according to a new study. It may sound gross, but that fungal diversity doesn’t have to be a bad thing.

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 ...

The Fungi That Cause Athlete’s Foot Have Given Up On Sex ... Given that, it perhaps shouldn’t come as a surprise that at least one species of fungi has opted out of sex altogether, ...