NEW YORK, May 11 (Reuters Life!) - "Embedding" is a severe form of self-injury among teenagers that involves inserting objects into the skin or muscle and appears to be linked to thoughts of suicide ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In a new study this week, doctors describe a form of self-injury among teenagers called self-embedding, which involves inserting objects into the skin or muscle. The ...

May 10, 2011 — Self-embedding behavior (SEB) in adolescents is a type of severe self-injury presenting a new primary care challenge, according to the results of a retrospective study reported online ...

(CBS) Some troubled teens find it hard to keep things from getting under their skin - literally. Doctors say a surprising number of depressed or anxious adolescents are ramming needles, staples, paper ...

At a recent medical conference in Chicago, a team of radiologists from Nationwide Children’s Hospital presented intriguing X-ray evidence of a psychological phenomenon — what they believed was a new ...

While the disturbing act of self-injury is nothing new to adolescents, researchers and physicians have identified a more severe type of behavior that is raising some concern among medical ...

Minimally invasive, image-guided treatment is a safe and precise method for removal of self-inflicted foreign objects from the body, according to the first report on "self-embedding disorder," or self ...

Megan is 15 and sometimes she feels like the whole world is coming down on her. She worries about homework, social problems in school, and her future. Her parents are fighting again. Her dad might ...

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 ...

As with other adolescent issues, early assessment and intervention are best. Nurse practitioners (NPs) and other pediatric providers should assess for all forms of DSH, including self-embedding, ...

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 ...