In the realm of common skin ailments, warts stand out as particularly vexing. These small, benign growths caused by the human papillomavirus (HPV) can be both unsightly and contagious. While they may ...

If you’ve recently spent time at a public pool (indoor or out) or taken showers at the gym, you may be at risk of developing a plantar wart. Plantar warts are caused by an infection that enters the ...

so i got this damn wart on my arm. i tried the stupid wart patch things w/ the sasilic (sp?) acid, but they sucked. sooooo, how do i get this bastard off my arm short of actually tearing it off? i did ...

Burning, freezing and cutting may work temporarily, but the warts frequently recur. That's why home remedies are so popular, especially with children. No one understands why the power of suggestion ...

Warts are growths on the skin that are notoriously stubborn to remove. Although warts are harmless most of the time, they are contagious and often unsightly. In this article, we discuss what causes ...

Home "remedies" are full of useful solutions, half-truths, and outright lies. This post is part of our Home Remedy Handbook, a tour of the landscape of home remedies from the iffy to the ...

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 ...

Dear Dr. Gott: How do you remove a family of plantar warts off the bottom of a big toe? My 10-year-old daughter has had them for a couple of years (shortly after starting gymnastics). There are about ...

A sign that wart treatment is working is if the wart begins to shrink and peel away. Salicylic acid is a common home treatment that needs to be applied daily to help remove warts. Stop using salicylic ...

Warts might seem trivial, but the stubborn little virus has long stymied the medical establishment. Nothing reliably kills the ugly growths, though dermatologists have tried liquid nitrogen, ...