Rachel Feltman: Nearly a third of U.S. adults have tattoos, so plenty of you listeners can probably rattle off the basic guidelines of tattoo safety: Make sure you go to a reputable tattoo artist who ...

Some tattoo ink can contain potentially harmful levels of bacteria while other batches contain additives that are not labeled, a growing issue as more and more Americans continue to get inked, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At a meeting of the American Chemical Society in Chicago, Illinois, on Wednesday, researchers at Binghamton University presented ...

John Swierk is an assistant professor of chemistry at Binghamton University, State University of New York. Tattoos are an incredibly common form of permanent self-expression that date back thousands ...

Tattoos are forever, right? Well, maybe not like we once thought. You can get them removed (though laser tattoo removal is nothing to scoff at), get an ephemeral tattoo that fades in a few years, or ...

One in four Australian adults have at least one tattoo, but new research suggests that what's in the ink may pose greater risks than the size and design of the tattoo. A new Flinders University study ...

What's in your tattoo ink might differ from what the label claims. Over 80% of the inks analyzed in a recent investigation have been found to contain unlisted additives and pigments. John R. Swierk, ...

Tattoos are no longer just body art. From vaccine delivery and self-fading inks to wearable health monitors, the medical ...