The modern mobile phone is both loathed and liked – particularly because of the large amount of time people spend glued to it over the course of the day but novel uses are always welcome, particularly if they can be helpful in making a serious dermatological diagnosis! In a forthcoming short paper to be published in the Journal of the American Academy of Dermatology, Chelidze and colleagues describe the infamous “selfie” as a useful tool to help discriminate a sub-ungual haem

Late last year I was asked to write and present some basic patient information videos on a range of foot related topics. These were kindly sponsored and produced for me and have now have been uploaded to Youtube for viewing. So please visit our clinic's Youtube channel (The Chiropody Surgery Lymington, Hampshire) where you will see the first three of these. Blisters Video Athletes Foot Video Verrucae and warts: #patient #video #blister #verruca