The first person in the West who can be described as a professional tattoo artist was Martin Hildebrandt, a German émigré who ...

Emotional and Psychological Reasons for Tattoos Getting a tattoo often helps women heal from deep emotional wounds and build stronger self-worth. The act of marking one's skin creates a powerful shift ...

Saraya Hill says not until remission that many breast cancer patients feel a sense of ownership over their lives again.

I lay on the mat of the open-air bungalow in Apia, Samoa, looking up at a gecko. As its tail quivered, I felt a sympathetic twitch in my leg. Su’a Sulu’ape Paulo III, the sixth-generation Samoan ...

A Colorado medical tattoo artist specializes in tattooing nipples on breast cancer survivors and aims to bring back a sense ...

Some research has found a link between tattoos and an increased risk of cancer, and recent evidence appears to suggest that tattoos could heighten the risk of blood cancer, in particular. What ...

Smithsonian American Art Museum, gift of Herbert Waide Hemphill Jr. and museum purchase made possible by Ralph Cross Johnson. A New York City tattoo artist, Samuel O’Reilly, was granted a patent for ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) – Tattoos have become so popular, it's hard to image a time when the industry was banned in New York City. For nearly four decades, tattooing was illegal because of health ...