Your hands and nails can offer warning signs of underlying disease and even chronic conditions like arthritis or psoriasis.

Vitamin B12 performs a number of pivotal roles in the body and these roles are responsible for both physical and mental processes. It’s role in the nervous system is to transmit signals between the ...

As a medical student, nails were one part of my anatomy course that I really struggled with. I found it difficult, at first, to stomach the sight of painful nail injuries. My squeamishness may have ...

A lot of times, it so happens that certain parts of your body give you signals before the major hit. This could be a slight pain in your ear or a change of colour in your nail. Your nails have the ...

If your nails look unusually pale or white instead of their usual pinkish color, it could mean your body is low on red blood cells. This condition is called anemia. Red blood cells carry oxygen to ...

The nail condition koilonychia produces spoon-shaped nails, because iron deficiency causes anemia. The growth of nail cells ...

Clubbing involves a softening of the nail bed with the loss of normal Lovibond angle between the nail bed and the fold, an increase in the nail fold convexity, and a thickening of the end of the ...