The Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Nose studs are often considered the signifier of a punkish ...

A 21-year-old woman has spoken of the "unbearable" pain she experienced as she gradually became paraplegic after she got her nose pierced. Last summer, Layane Dias, from the Brazilian capital city of ...

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. Ms Smith ...

A 20-year-old girl has been left in a wheelchair for life because of a bacterial infection that developed after she had her nose pierced. Layne Dias had her nose pierced last July and said the ...

Queens resident Dana Smith was diagnosed with fulminant Hepatitis B and underwent a liver transplant in January A New York woman is recovering after a nose piercing infection led to a life-threatening ...

Layane Dias developed an infection which led to a build up of pus compressing three vertebrae in her spine A WOMAN was left wheelchair-bound after having her NOSE pierced. Layane Dias said she thought ...

A tiny stud in a woman’s nostril is likely to blame for a huge health emergency that sent her to the hospital with liver failure, doctors say. They believe the nose piercing was the source of a ...

A 14-year-old girl has won the legal right to wear a nose piercing she claims is part of her religion at school. Ariana Iacono took her North Carolina high school to court after she was suspended for ...