Posted by Thomas Barrows, MD on 8/11/2011
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Do you use tap water to cut your tattoo ink? The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) now warns this may be a dangerous practice after a rare infection developed in two customers receiving tattoos at a professional tattoo shop in Washington State.
You can copyright all kinds of things but can you copyright a tattoo on the flesh? A lawsuit filed by tattoo artist Victor Whitmill against Warner Brothers for use of his famous Mike Tyson tattoo claims you can.
Posted by Thomas Barrows, MD on 6/3/2011
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Tattoo artists are long familiar with the risks of HIV and viral hepatitis, but how about MRSA? In this month's blog, I review MRSA and how it relates to tattooing.
Do you use tap water to cut your tattoo ink? The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) now warns this may be a dangerous practice after a rare infection developed in two customers receiving tattoos at a professional tattoo shop in Washington State.
You can copyright all kinds of things but can you copyright a tattoo on the flesh? A lawsuit filed by tattoo artist Victor Whitmill against Warner Brothers for use of his famous Mike Tyson tattoo claims you can.
Tattoo artists are long familiar with the risks of HIV and viral hepatitis, but how about MRSA? In this month's blog, I review MRSA and how it relates to tattooing.
Has your tattoo shop been audited? You may find out the hard way about "Sales and Use Taxes!"