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 ...

Q: I am seeing a dermatologist for plantar warts on the tops and bottoms of my feet. He is using a combination of acid and freezing. This is painful, and I have difficulties walking, even two weeks ...

Q: My husband has terrible plantar warts. They have been frozen multiple times by a dermatologist. Acid patches ate away at his healthy skin, but not the warts. The warts have spread and are ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A targeted heat treatment appears to alleviate bothersome and sometimes painful plantar warts, researchers from China have found. Plantar warts are skin growths on the ...

Q: Our teen-age daughter had a plantar wart on the sole of her foot for a long time. It didn’t seem to bother her. Now she’s getting another one on the ball of her foot. It hurts when she walks.

Dear Dr. Donohue: I have been plagued for years by a plantar wart on the sole of my right foot. The podiatrist has bombed it several times, and I have used salicylic acid, but neither seems to cure it ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: What's the best way to treat plantar warts to ensure they don't come back? I have them on my feet. At one point, I had them removed with freezing therapy, but they keep returning and ...

Plantar warts are hard, tough, horny growths that appear on the plantar surface (sole) of the foot. Normal standing and walking tends to press these lesions into the skin, flattening them and causing ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Nano-Pulse Stimulation is a promising therapy for patients with recalcitrant plantar warts, according to a ...