Maybe you’ve been slacking on moisturizing recently, and now your cuticles are dry and cracked. Or you’ve had a nail-biting type of week, and you’ve got the jagged hangnails to show for it. At first, ...

Dear Doctors: Right after I got a manicure, the skin around two of my fingernails got red and really swollen. My roommate says it can happen when the manicurist cuts your cuticles. Is that true? You ...

Medically reviewed by Chris Vincent, MDMedically reviewed by Chris Vincent, MD An infected hangnail is a form of paronychia, a condition in which the skin next to the nail is infected. If you have a ...

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Keep your hands clean and moisturize your skin to prevent hangnail infections. You can soak your fingers in warm water to ...

David Murgueytio had his first pedicure about two years ago in a Rockville, Md., nail salon. It also was his last. The pedicurist pushed his cuticles back with a sharp little scooped tool — “he dug in ...

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