When tattoos aren't enough, some implant metal bars or split tongues Centre Daily Times
DALLAS -- Allen Falkner's tongue is just one of his unusual features. It is split down the middle, and when he sticks it out, it looks like a two-pronged snake tongue.
Disease is growing at a rate of 8 to 10 percent a year in the Cowboy State Wyoming Tribune-Eagle
CHEYENNE - Last Thursday, 12 people gathered in a conference room at United Medical Center-West for the first-ever Cheyenne support group for those suffering from the hepatitis C virus.
Clamp Got Your Tongue? Chicago Flame
If you were an Aztec shaman in 65 BC, you might be piercing your tongue and passing a rough cord back and forth through your temporary hole. If you were a UIC student in the year 2006 AD, you might be sitting in Taylor Street Tattoo & Body Piercing with your tongue stretched out in clamps held by Tim Gooding, the shop's piercer.
Stingrays must be taken seriously Houston Chronicle
Steve 'Crocodile Hunter' Irwin's death Down Under serves as a grim reminder of the danger posed by stingrays — even in Texas
FDA approves limited use of artificial heart News-Medical-Net
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in the United States has given approval for limited use of an artificial heart.
ADDING MULTIMEDIA Abiomed Receives FDA Approval of The AbioCorR, the World's First Completely Self-Contained, RedNova
-- Conference Call Scheduled for September 5, 2006 at 3 PM Eastern Abiomed, Inc. (NASDAQ: ABMD) announced today it has received Humanitarian Device Exemption (HDE) approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) for its AbioCor(R) Implantable Replacement Heart (AbioCor).
ADDING MULTIMEDIA Abiomed Receives FDA Approval of The AbioCorR, the World's First Completely Self-Contained, Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance
DANVERS, Mass.----Sept. 5, 2006--Abiomed, Inc. announced today it has received Humanitarian Device Exemption approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for its AbioCor® Implantable Replacement Heart .
Uganda: Witchcraft Scare - Parents Circumcising, Piercing Kids' Ears AllAfrica.com
THE number of parents taking their sons for circumcision to guard them against being sacrificed by witch doctors has of recent increased.
Ashland ink Ashland Daily Tidings
What was once on the fringe, edgy, taboo is now ubiquitous and hidden in plain sight. Tatts are everywhere. As are piercings: noses, eyebrows, ears, lips, more ears, and tongues.
That '70s Show Theater City Pages
What do you call the hangover from a national hangover?

Body piercing - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The word "piercing" can refer to the act or practice of body piercing, or to a specific steps are taken during the aftercare period to avoid infection.
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BODY PIERCING INFECTIONS. Pierced areas, especially sensitive areas like the navel, can get infected months and even years after they were pierced,
Body Piercing: A Guide for Teens
Implant grade stainless steel is least likely to produce a foreign body reaction or infection in the skin. Other choices for new piercings are metals such
Body Piercing Problems -- Topic Overview
Common problems that develop from body piercing include:. Infection of the site. The risk for infection increases if you have other health risks.
APP: Body Piercing Troubleshooting
The following are facts about body piercing and body jewelry to share with your doctor Infected Piercing: • Problem: Piercing has been contaminated by


Body Piercing: A Guide for Teens
Implant grade stainless steel is least likely to produce a foreign body reaction or infection in the skin. Other choices for new piercings are metals such
Body Piercing Problems -- Topic Overview
Common problems that develop from body piercing include:. Infection of the site. The risk for infection increases if you have other health risks.
APP: Body Piercing Troubleshooting
The following are facts about body piercing and body jewelry to share with your doctor Infected Piercing: • Problem: Piercing has been contaminated by
Piercing Health and Safety -- Piercing and the Active Person
However, if a client presents with fever and body aches in the setting of an infected piercing, the infection has begun to affect the entire body and is a
Body Piercing
Studies have shown that people with certain types of heart disease might have a higher risk of developing a heart infection after body piercing.
Tattoos and piercings: What to know beforehand - MayoClinic.com
Such infection can lead to cartilage damage and serious, permanent ear deformity. Scars and keloids. Body piercing can cause scars and keloids — ridged
Excuse me, is this infected?
Sign Up Now for the Tattoos / Body Piercings newsletter! Incidentally, if you believe any tattoo or piercing infection is a result of poor sanitary
Complications of Body Piercing - November 15, 2005 -- American
With any piercing, there is the danger of infection, including hepatitis B or C virus and tetanus.8 Body piercing as a possible vector for human