Medically reviewed by Katlein Franca, MD Key Takeaways You can get athlete's foot on the hand, called tinea manuum, by scratching an infected foot. The fungal infection can also be passed from person ...

Athletes are 2.5 times more likely than the general public to develop nail fungus, according to a study in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology. The condition can disrupt training, ...

Humid monsoon weather can increase the risk of fungal infections during periods. An expert shares simple hygiene habits to ...

Most people associate foot fungus with sweaty gym environments, but medical experts reveal this persistent infection has sneakier ways of spreading. Dr. Michael Thompson at Northwestern Medicine ...

Traditional culture-based methods have incompletely defined the microbial landscape of common recalcitrant human fungal skin diseases, including athlete’s foot and toenail infections. Skin protects ...