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Tongue piercing leads to bacterial infection

...aled that more than one-half had some type of body piercing and 22 percent suffered a medical complication fro... with piercings reported medical complications. Of piercing complications, bacterial infection was the most reported complication, followed by bleeding and inju...

Lip Piercing Can Be Fatal

...outh Yorkshire coroner Chris Dorries said that lip piercing was dangerous, but Body Poppers, the salon where D...t when her son died she had believed that the body piercing was the cause, 'I hope that this today, and the wider attention the inquest has attracted, will caus...

Parents' Permission Required For Tattooing

...es will also cover anyone who offers electrolysis, piercing and acupuncture. The new rules will have to be adh...sts and experts. Scotland alone has over 200 skin piercing businesses and tattoo parlors. Andy Kerr, the Health Minister of the country justified the new rul...

Tongue Piercing Is Unhealthy

...’s clinical, peer-reviewed journal, says that body piercing especially that of the tongue is harmful and shoul...ented on extreme case, it is possible that unclean piercing equipment can cause other infections, such as blood borne hepatitis. Melvin K. Pierson, DDS, FAGD, A...

Arrow Embedded In Tribal’s Chest For Two Weeks Surgically Remove

...ny other human being would have died with an arrow piercing into his body from the right shoulder to the left side, piercing his lungs,' the doctors said. --Edited IAN...

Support to care takers of psychiatric patients in pieces?

...nspicuous lack in uniformity of services was noted piercing through both public and private sector mental health services. The authors of the study have come up with valuable suggestions which could go a long way to harness the most from the care givers, like improving the availability of appropriate informat...

Piercing breast led to mastectomy in teenager

...which destroys tissues in the body. Apparently the piercing on her breasts created an entry point for the bacteria explained doctors who attended to her. Stephanie was later also noted to be diabetic which left her more prone to infection. It is only the third recognized case in the world of gas gangrene havi...

Injuries Cost Hospitals $20 Billion

...or vehicle crashes, head or body blows, cutting or piercing wounds, other transportation crashes – such as those involving off-road vehicles, horseback riding, and boats – and gunshots. Source-Newswis SRM...

Pure Gold can Cause Allergy

...ten it will remain for the rest of your life. Body piercing can cause an increasing susceptibility to gold allergy. If you suffer from this type of allergy you should avoid contact with gold. If you have dental gold crowns, you may want to have them replaced with a palladium-silver alloy or you may prefer t...

Carbon Nanoneedles For Drug Delivery

...g other barriers for the drug to fight through. By piercing plasma membranes and heading straight to the cytoplasm, the functionalised carbon nanotube encounters fewer biological barriers and delivers the drug more directly. The nanotubes also offer a structural advantage in that they are extremely thin bu...

Study to Explore Using Magnets to Correct 'sunken Chest'

... force to gradually remodel the chest wall without piercing the skin," Harrison said. "Magnets do it." The research team named the new technique the "Magnetic Mini-Mover Procedure," known as 3MP. The 3MP uses a device that includes two parts: a titanium-encased magnet about the size of a quarter that is sur...

Low Pitch Therapy for ‘ringing in the Ears

... in his injured right ear accented by the periodic piercing of a high-pitched ringing sound ranging between 4,000 and 8,000 hertz in frequency. At first, Zeng thought of treating the tinnitus with a high-pitched sound, a method called masking that is sometimes used in tinnitus therapy attempts. But he ruled...

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