A care worker who had a splinter in his finger ended up having to have it amputated after staff at an NHS urgent treatment centre thought it was “a superficial injury”. Alan Blakey, who works in a ...

TO MANY OF US, GETTING A SPLINTER IN YOUR HAND THAT YOU JUST CAN’T GET OUT. YEAH, KIND OF ANNOYING, RIGHT? THE MAN HAD THIS HAPPEN TO HIM. ONLY THE SPLINTER WAS SO BIG HIS HAND GOT SO INFECTED HE ...

In the well-known fable Androcles and the Lion, a tiny splinter brought the mighty lion to his knees. And if you’ve ever had a spiky splinter puncture your tender skin, you can relate. Getting a ...

A carpenter ended up in a coma in intensive care after a splinter in his hand made him seriously ill. Dave Parkyn, 30, suffered a life-threatening stroke, blindness, sepsis and pneumonia after a wood ...

A man suffered from a life-threatening stroke, sepsis and pneumonia after a wood splinter on his hand got infected(Image: © Stroke Association/ SWNS) A 28-year-old ...