Tattooing.piercing.anorexia.self-cutting.plastic surgery.body-building.the use of life extension technologies–these are all forms of body modification that have become increasingly prevalent in ...

Researchers have shed fascinating new light on the unusual practice of permanent body modification during the Viking Age, which in some cases, may have been practiced as a "rite of initiation". It was ...

Rights activists in The Gambia are calling for justice after a one-month-old baby's death was linked to female genital mutilation, a widely practiced but illegal procedure up for review before the ...