To provide safe and effective care for patients with body piercings, nurses must become more knowledgeable about this increasingly common practice. Competent nursing care is more than simply ...

Some guys think that body piercing, including penis piercing, is pretty cool. Perhaps you're even one of them. If you're healthy and you're sure this is what you want, then there's no reason you ...

A ghoulish Alabama mortuary worker was sentenced last week to 15 years in federal prison for hawking body ... parts — including fetuses — to a sicko collector covered in face tattoos and ...

Florence Pugh's septum ring or even Kim Kardashian green-lighting the return of the Y2K belly button piercing, there's no shortage of A-list ear stacks and body jewelry to get us wanting to go ...

Food particles or smoking can add to the risk of infection with oral piercings. Piercings anywhere on your body may become infected. One study of 10,912 emergency room visits due to piercing ...

Our new study explored a different possibility – that laws about bodily damage are rooted in something universal about human nature: shared intuitions about the value of body parts. Do people across ...

Do people across cultures and throughout history agree on which body parts are more or less valuable? Until now, no one had systematically tested whether body parts are valued similarly across ...

Why we have body parts we don't need is simple. According to the Harvard Health website, they were most likely necessary at one point but eventually became nonessential through evolution.

The body contains all the internal organs, body parts, bones and muscles that make up the human anatomy. Your fleshy body has evolved over millions of years, and this is the science changing the way ...

Remember, while you can take the jewellery out, piercings permanently alter your body. So, think about them as a life-long investment when you’re deciding where to go and how much to spend.