Peeing out your tattoo: What really happens in your body when you have body art removed

Peeing out your tattoo: What really happens in your body when you have body art removed

What happens to a tattoo when you decide forever is too long? Tattoo removal is achieved through a series of laser treatments, typically four to 10 sessions. Laser-based treatments heat the tattoo pigment to temperatures up to 572 degrees Fahrenheit, causing ink particles to break apart. While many assume the ink simply fades in the … Read more

10-year-old girl with Rapunzel syndrome has 10-oz. hairball surgically removed from her stomach

10-year-old girl with Rapunzel syndrome has 10-oz. hairball surgically removed from her stomach

One hell of a haircut. Doctors in Pune, India, recently operated on a 10-year-old girl to remove a 10-oz. hairball, equivalent in size to a roll of paper towels, from her stomach. The child was diagnosed with “Rapunzel syndrome,” a rare digestive disorder caused by the compulsion to pull out and consume one’s own hair. … Read more

Passenger removed from flight and arrested — for dancing on airplane: ‘Risked the safety of herself’

Passenger removed from flight and arrested — for dancing on airplane: ‘Risked the safety of herself’

Was it Saturday flight fever? A New Zealand woman was booted from a flight and charged after drunkenly dancing in the aisle while the aircraft was taxiing. The in-flight “Footloose” moment occurred in July aboard a Qantas flight from Sydney to Queenstown, news.com.au reported. However, the trip quickly went south after a 50-year-old passenger, Sheree … Read more

I had tattoos on 95% of my body — now I’m having them removed, and the pain is horrible

I had tattoos on 95% of my body — now I’m having them removed, and the pain is horrible

From full sleeve to clean slate: Brazil’s onetime most-tattooed man is erasing his past, one laser pulse at a time. Leandro de Souza, a 36-year-old photographer from Bagé in Brazil’s southernmost state, spent two decades turning himself into a walking canvas.  The Brazilian had more than 170 inkings covering about 95% of his body, a … Read more

Country singer Bryan Martin removed from stage during NY concert for intoxication and ‘erratic behavior’

Country singer Bryan Martin removed from stage during NY concert for intoxication and ‘erratic behavior’

Country singer Bryan Martin was “forcibly” yanked from the stage after causing a ruckus during a concert in upstate New York. The crooner, 37, was mid-performance at the Schaghticoke Fairgrounds, about 30 minutes from Albany, when he began to display “signs of intoxication and erratic behavior,” according to the Rensselaer County Sheriff’s Office (RCSO). “Deputies … Read more

Exclusive | I had no symptoms but my body was riddled with cancer — doctors removed 7 organs after I asked for a nonstandard test

Exclusive | I had no symptoms but my body was riddled with cancer — doctors removed 7 organs after I asked for a nonstandard test

“Florida is doing you well,” guests gushed to Louise Altese-Isidori at the opening party for the new location of her husband’s popular Manhattan Italian restaurant, Arthur & Sons. A lifelong New Yorker, the 50-year-old had recently moved to the Sunshine State with her family and was thriving, completely unaware of the deadly threat growing inside … Read more

French authorities investigate if Jewish passengers were removed from flight due to religion

French authorities investigate if Jewish passengers were removed from flight due to religion

French authorities are trying to establish whether a group of young French citizens was removed from a plane bound for Paris from Spain this week because they are Jewish. The airline, Vueling, has denied the claims. Several dozen French passengers on Wednesday were kicked off a flight leaving the Spanish city of Valencia for Paris, for what … Read more

Microplastics could be removed from our bodies with blood filtering technique

Microplastics could be removed from our bodies with blood filtering technique

They’re small, sneaky and swimming in your veins. Microplastics have been found throughout the human body — and early research suggests they may pose some serious health risks. Now, scientists say a blood-filtration technique already used in hospitals around the world might be able help flush them out. Microplastics are a growing public health concern. … Read more

‘Home Alone 2’ director wants Donald Trump’s cameo removed: ‘If I cut it, I’ll probably be sent out of the country’

‘Home Alone 2’ director wants Donald Trump’s cameo removed: ‘If I cut it, I’ll probably be sent out of the country’

Alone without a homeland? “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York” director Chris Columbus wants Donald Trump’s cameo removed from the beloved movie but fears his director’s cut would get him deported from the US. The filmmaker, 66, opened up about President Trump’s seven-second appearance in the 1992 movie during an interview with the San … Read more

Josh Duhamel traded in Hollywood for an off-the-grid home in Minnesota: ‘It’s removed from everything’

Josh Duhamel traded in Hollywood for an off-the-grid home in Minnesota: ‘It’s removed from everything’

Hollywood star Josh Duhamel is living the good life. Duhamel, 52, left Los Angeles behind to live off-grid in a Minnesota home he spent 15 years building. “Part of the reason I built my place out in Minnesota, deep in the woods, is it’s removed from everything,” the “Safe Haven” star told Parade. “The closest store is 40 … Read more

Pig Kidney Removed From Alabama Woman After Organ Rejection

Pig Kidney Removed From Alabama Woman After Organ Rejection

Surgeons removed a genetically engineered pig’s kidney from an Alabama woman after she experienced acute organ rejection, NYU Langone Health officials said on Friday. Towana Looney, 53, lived with the kidney for 130 days, which is longer than anyone else has tolerated an organ from a genetically modified animal. She has resumed dialysis, hospital officials … Read more

I had a full-body MRI for fun — I found out I had a 1 in 3 chance of dying and needed an organ removed

I had a full-body MRI for fun — I found out I had a 1 in 3 chance of dying and needed an organ removed

What was supposed to be a preventive scan turned into a nightmare for a young mother when it revealed a “ticking time bomb” lurking in her body. “I had a full-body MRI just for fun. No symptoms whatsoever,” Sarah Blackburn shared in a viral TikTok, recounting her shocking experience earlier this year after getting a … Read more

Paige DeSorbo’s pillow line ‘removed’ from ex Craig Conover’s lifestyle site after split: ‘Clean break’

Paige DeSorbo’s pillow line ‘removed’ from ex Craig Conover’s lifestyle site after split: ‘Clean break’

Paige DeSorbo and Craig Conover appear to no longer be mixing business with pleasure. After DeSorbo, 32, announced that she and the “Southern Charm” star, 35, had broken up after three years together, eagle-eyed fans noticed her pillow line is no longer available on his Sewing Down South lifestyle website. The link to their collaboration, “The … Read more

Heartbroken widower learns memorial tree for late wife of 68 years will be removed after council error

Heartbroken widower learns memorial tree for late wife of 68 years will be removed after council error

A man who planted a memorial tree to remember his late wife of 68 years has been told it will be uprooted after it was placed on a protected ground. Distraught John Gibson, 87, wanted to honor the memory of his wife, Alexandra, who passed away in 2022 and was offered a tree to be … Read more

CBS seemingly removed Brock Bowers’ Donald Trump dance after Raiders touchdown

CBS seemingly removed Brock Bowers’ Donald Trump dance after Raiders touchdown

Dance Dance … retribution? The “NFL on CBS” X account edited out tight end Brock Bowers’ Trump-shuffle touchdown celebration Sunday, OutKick reports. Nick Bosa celebrates a touchdown in the third quarter of Sunday’s game. X/Las Vegas Raiders On the televised game broadcast, fans saw the score, then Bowers’ celebration, then Raiders owner Mark Davis rejoicing … Read more

Top MLS analyst Taylor Twellman removed from broadcast after physical altercation with producer

Top MLS analyst Taylor Twellman removed from broadcast after physical altercation with producer

Soccer broadcaster Taylor Twellman is being investigated by Major League Soccer after an alleged physical altercation in October with a production assistant ahead of a playoff broadcast on Apple TV.  The incident — which came to light in a report by The Athletic this week — involved the broadcaster and an audio engineer from Program … Read more

I developed a pregnancy phobia after my traumatizing childbirth so I had my tubes removed at 24

I developed a pregnancy phobia after my traumatizing childbirth so I had my tubes removed at 24

A mom was so traumatized by her first pregnancy that she says she “literally developed of phobia” and had her fallopian tubes removed at age 24. Belle Mourraille, now 28, was bedridden for months and lost 30 pounds while pregnant, and after thinking she was going to die during childbirth, she opted to undergo a … Read more

Cardinals fans shocked after cheerleaders removed from sideline: ‘Bring them back!’

Cardinals fans shocked after cheerleaders removed from sideline: ‘Bring them back!’

There were fireworks in Glendale on Monday night, but it had nothing to do with the Cardinals’ 17-15 win over the Chargers at State Farm Stadium. Fans of the NFC West franchise expressed shock over the apparent removal of the Arizona Cardinals Cheerleaders from the sidelines during the team’s Week 7 win, with loved ones … Read more

Liam Payne’s body removed from Argentina hotel after fatally falling from balcony

Liam Payne’s body removed from Argentina hotel after fatally falling from balcony

Photos have emerged of Liam Payne’s body being removed from the hotel in Buenos Aires, Argentina where he died on Wednesday. Paparazzi captured an ambulance backed up to the CasaSur Palermo Hotel, as Payne’s body was loaded into the vehicle. The ambulance then drove off under police escort. The former One Direction member died at … Read more

Elton John, 77, lists organs he’s had removed: ‘Not much’ of me left

Elton John, 77, lists organs he’s had removed: ‘Not much’ of me left

Elton John is still standing. The 77-year-old singer openly joked about his many health issues in a speech at the premiere of his new documentary, “Elton John: Never Too Late,” at the New York Film Festival on Tuesday. “To be honest with you, there’s not much of me left,” John told the audience after a … Read more