In superstition, as well as in folk and fairy tales, you can always tell who is the witch because typically she’s got green skin, wrinkles and a large wart on her nose. Although missing the wart, the ...

Q: My daughter had so many warts on her hands that there was nothing the doctor could do. He said freezing or burning them off was out of the question. He suggested Tagamet. That sounded weird, but ...

Waking up in the morning to have an ugly wart greet you from the mirror could be frustrating. Your frustration grows as no amount of make up, facial cream or other beauty products can make them go ...

Dr. Reid Waldman has a Glastonbury dermatology practice and is also developing a new wart-removal treatment called WartPatch. PHOTO UCONN SCHOOL OF BUSINESS Nobody likes to see a child cry. For Dr.

In Roald Dahl’s “Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” the nasty girl who got the second golden ticket was named Veruca Salt, a tongue-in-cheek allusion to verruca, the medical term for warts. In fact, ...

Q. I had a painful, swollen plantar wart on the bottom of my foot for more than a year. I had it removed surgically, but it came back with a vengeance. The pain became unbearable and made it hard to ...

Warts are noncancerous growths that develop on your skin or mucous membranes (soft, fleshy areas such as inside your mouth and genitals). They vary widely in shape and appearance — some are round, ...

WHAT: Wartner Wart Removal System, from Wartner Medical Products. WHY: For the first time, consumers can mimic the quick procedure available at a dermatologist’s office and freeze the offending growth ...

Q: My daughter had so many warts on her hands that there was nothing the doctor could do. He suggested Tagamet. In two months, she had many fewer warts. By the third month they were gone. A: ...