STANDING in the school playground with my hand cradling my baby bump, I suddenly felt the smile fade from my face.  I had just told a couple of school mums my happy news – I was expecting my ...

Tattoos can cause a spectrum of reactions, from swelling at the injection site to an effect that can spread over the body.

An international team of anthropologists, cultural heritage specialists and lab analysts has found tattoos of a type never seen before on the face and arm of an 800-year-old Andean mummy. Their paper ...

Scarring from tattooing, called keloids, occurs more frequently on dark skin. It happens when tattoo artists press harder or ...