For the busy clinician when any clinical question arises, “googling” (rightly or wrongly) is the first thing that many of us will do. A...

Warts are the most frequent viral infection we see in the podiatry clinic, yet in terms of research, we know little about how they are...

It’s been a while since I published any updates from the literature on this evolving topic. In the latter part of this year, there have...

For many years fungal skin infection, particularly tinea pedis has been a very common pathology which when diagnosed, was considered...

Following the recent Royal College of Podiatry Conference last month in Liverpool, I decided to try and answer the most asked question...

This article discusses how mole numbers on the skin vary with age.

When a patient has a skin problem, one could make a judgment about the severity by assessing the amount of skin involved, but does that...

Dermatology is an interesting but vast subject area and when healthcare professionals are seeking further information on a potential...

As autumn arrives in the UK, we see a change in skin problems from sun-related conditions to the effects of cooler and colder weather....

In modern podiatric practice, the use of local anaesthetic is routine. For the patient, it can potentially be a painful experience. To...

Sunlight may reduce deaths from COVID-19 infection. This may sound like misinformation, but a recent paper in the British Journal of...

Microwave therapy, using the Swift® unit, has become a mainstream treatment in the management of verrucae showing immunomodulatory...

One of the benefits of dermatology is that is a very visual subject and consequently, it is ideally suited to photography. An accurate...

This blog look at a recent study investigating if HPV vaccination can treat cutaneous warts.

I have written a few blogs over the last few years on the topic of dermoscopy and dermatoscopes, highlighting how the technique can...

Thsi articles summarises some of the recent discoveries around fungal virulence amongst dermatophytes.

Figure 1 - Patient A Dermatology is a fascinating subject with a catalogue of different skin conditions we occasionally observe in the...

Simple tips to help discern if a lesion might be benign or malignant.

This month represents a landmark for www.foot.expert - many thanks to the thousands of you who regularly visit the site. This blog is the...

Recent research has demonstrated relapse of the phenomenon known as COVID toes in patients.