Body+Business+-+Tattooing,+Body+Piercing,+and+Steroids

Thinking about adorning yourself with a **tattoo** or **body pi****ercing**? Before making this important decision about your body, be informed! Check out these resources: Making Your Mark: What You Need to Know about Body Art, from Piercings to Tattoos, by Mark Rowh. //**Current Health Teens**//, Nov. 2011: pp. 6-9. (Find this article and much more information in [|Middle Search Plus].)

[|Getting Your Ears Pierced], from [|KidsHealth]

[|Body Piercing], from FamilyDoctor.org (Information for this web article came from [|Complications of Body Piercing], by Donna I. Meltzer, M.D.)

[|Piercing and Tattoos], from MedlinePlus

[|Bodily Harm], by John DiConsiglio. //**Scholastic Choices**//, Jan. 2005: pp.14-17.

[|Tattoos: Understand Risks and Precautions], from the [|Mayo Clinic].

[|Body Art: Facts and Fiction], from the Palo Alto Medical Foundation

[|The Dangerous Art of the Tattoo], by Bernadine Healy. //**U.S. News & World Report**//, Aug. 4, 2008, p. 69.

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[|Tattoos], from **TeensHealth** Search for any topic in Science in Context, and find articles from science encyclopedias, magazines, journals, and more.

Learn about the dangers of **steroids** use by reading the following:

[|Are Steroids Worth the Risk?] from **TeensHealth**

[|Anabolic Steroids], from (National Institute on Drug Abuse) NIDA for Teens

[|Big Threat], by Wayne Coffey. **//Scholastic Action//**, Oct. 8, 2007: pp.18-20.

[|Staring Down Steroids], by Sean McCollum. //**Junior Scholastic**//, Feb. 7, 2005: pp.10-11

[|Anabolic Steroids], from ESPN.com //(This is the first article from [|Drugs and Sports], an eight-part series " examining the effects of commonly abused substances on athletic performance and overall health".)//