Dermatologist Dr. Debra Jaliman explains how to treat an infected piercing in eight steps. Learn how to treat an infected ear piercing, nose piercing, or belly button piercing here.

NOSE piercings can be a fun way of expressing yourself — but it’s important you know how to look after them. From infections to suspicious bumps, if you don’t clean them regularly you could ...

Smith and Teperman reunite a month after her liver transplant. Courtesy Northwell Health Teperman is 90% sure the piercing was the source of the infection — the entry of the virus to her body.

Mother, 37, almost dies and needs a liver transplant after a Hepatitis B infection from a $60 NOSE RING left her unable to eat or even drink water Dana Smith, 37, from Queens, New York, bought a ...

Dana Smith, 37, from Queens, New York, was rushed to the hospital in late January with a mysterious infection that doctors later learned was connected to the $60 ($78) piercing in her nose.

Queens woman Dana Smith, 37, nearly died after contracting an infection from a $60 nose piercing. She was placed in a medically induced coma and got a liver transplant. Northwell Health ...