A rare but difficult-to-treat bacterial infection that usually strikes people with impaired immune systems is showing up for the first time in healthy individuals getting tattoos, the Centers of ...

A tattoo infection occurs when a person gets a tattoo, and it becomes infected due to small wounds on the skin. Although proper sterilization and care can reduce the risk of tattoo infection, it still ...

Yesterday, the Food and Drug Administration – which regulates tattoo ink – issued a warning for tattoo artists, the recently inked, and anyone considering a tattoo: Watch out for Mycobacterium ...

Judging by the sudden spike in high-concept AIDS allegories hitting the festival circuit, it must have been the shock of COVID-19 that sent so many artists’ minds racing back to that previous pandemic ...

We see many people in our clinic with newly acquired tattoos and body piercings and are having a difficult time discerning if the artwork or jewelry is infected or just going through a "normal" ...

Two colors of Sacred Tattoo Ink-brand tattoo ink are being recalled due to being contaminated with infection-causing microorganisms, the FDA announced Wednesday. The FDA became aware that specific ...

If you’re going to have a person use a needle gun to continuously puncture your skin hundreds of thousands of times, injecting a foreign material into your body, you would hope that the tattoo artist ...

Kirsty Griffiths said doctors told her she might need her foot amputated if the infection didn’t clear up A mom of five said she was hospitalized — and told she might need her leg amputated — after a ...

OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — New York Yankees reliever Aroldis Chapman will be placed on the injured list after getting an infection in his leg from a recent tattoo. Manager Aaron Boone said before Saturday ...

The Palme d'Or-winning director returns to Cannes competition with a muddled meditation on an earlier pandemic, squandering the talents of lead actors Golshifteh Farahani and Tahar Rahim. Judging by ...