Also, the cuticular seal of the nails should be intact, and the nail plate should adhere to the nail bed, says Dr. Thomas ...

Just as the skin and hair can reveal changes in our health, the nails can also gossip about what might be going on beneath ...

Your nails reflect your overall health and any abnormalities ... such as a lack of certain minerals or vitamins (vitamin B12, ...

The key to whether you should get any changes to your fingernails checked out is whether it appears on all your fingernails or just one. Usually longitudinal ridging appears on all fingers, but, says ...

There is a special thing with these chips that is often unnoticed by the people. It is the lines or ridges on the chips. Have you ever wondered why these lines are there? Some chips don’t have them.

If you rip off fake nails, you can end up taking off chunks of the outermost layer, Dr. Ibrahim says. The result? Everything from bumps and ridges to thinning to increased peeling to discoloration.

A change in how the site works will allow people to see posts by users who have them blocked. The company claims it is for “transparency,” but some people are worried about abuse. By Sandra E ...

Just like scientists use rings in trees to approximate the age of the tree, medical professionals can use lines, changes, and ridges in nails to estimate the beginning of an illness. Not everyone ...

and a lack of calcium especially can cause slightly brittle nails. Nail growth also slows down during illness, or sometimes after an operation, but this tends to reveal itself as ridges ...