A new study of children undergoing radiology treatment at one U.S. hospital points to what seems to be a little-recognized form of deliberate self-injury where kids embed objects ranging from glass to ...

Report finds new type of self-injury, but some doctors aren't surprised. Dec. 9, 2008— -- Some doctors are alarmed by what they see as a growing trend by adolescents to mutilate their bodies ...

There's another teenage behavior to alarm American parents. Doctors have come across a little-reported form of deliberate self-injury by teenagers — embedding objects ranging from glass to needles to ...

A 17-year-old girl jammed six metal staples into the soft skin near her wrist. A 15-year-old girl pushed a length of pencil lead under the skin of her forearm. One 18-year-old inserted 35 objects over ...