While you're enjoying the beach, there's a microscopic menace lurking in the warm, salty waters: Vibrio vulnificus, aka the ...

Why Your Tattoo Feels Itchy While Healing Getting a tattoo involves puncturing the skin with needles and depositing ink into the dermal layer. This process creates a wound on the skin.

Now, don’t panic and cancel your beach vacation. The odds of infection are low, but it’s worth taking precautions. Here’s the ...

Any natural body of water—whether that be a lake, river, or even an ocean—comes with its risks. This is primarily because they aren’t disinfected like swimming pools. That means they can harbor ...

Stages of wound healing vary in duration depending on the size and depth of the tattooed area. When you have a skin wound, such as a tattoo, it typically bleeds, and a scab eventually forms to protect ...

Sanitary Practices and the Risk of Infection or Disease The process of tattooing involves injury to the skin, which may open it up to infection. Infection (due to either contaminated tattoo ink or ...

Ukrainian paratrooper Andrii was tortured for 14 months in Russian captivity. The doctors burned “Glory to Russia” into his ...

Quiniece Washburn developed a dangerous, 'traumatizing' skin infection after getting a tattoo on her calf for her brother.

She got a portrait of his face on her leg, "so I knew that he would be with me," but the tattoo became painfully infected, causing her to need treatment in the ICU She's warning others to be careful ...

Those were the last shots he'll hit at this year's U.S. Open. DeChambeau became the first defending champion to miss the cut at the national championship since Gary Woodland in 2020 — his round ...