Certain types of shoes are known to be bad for your feet, such as high heels and flip-flops. But when it comes to foot health, there’s something else that often gets overlooked: the type of socks you ...

As someone who walks a few miles a day and wears her fair share of narrow-footed and heeled shoes for the sake of fashion, I’m no stranger to foot pain. Plus, I’ve just started running more regularly ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. Most of the time, feet are easy to forget. Hidden away in socks and ...

Sometimes, “your feet are the first place where you can see warning signs of things like diabetes or vascular disease or even skin cancer,” says Hira Mirza, a podiatrist at CLS Health in Houston. “If ...

For the better part of two years, after I finished hiking the Appalachian Trail and tried (and repeatedly failed) to return to running, the lower half of my right leg became a medical battlefield. I ...

Which socks for athlete’s foot are best? Athlete’s foot (Tinea pedis) is an infection caused by a fungus that makes the feet itchy and scaly. According to the National Institutes of Health, up to 10% ...

With the proliferation of genealogy companies offering us a chance to discover more about our heritage through DNA analysis, our fascination with ancestry is growing. MIT Technology Review reported ...