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 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 ...

Splinters are the pits, but usually, they're no big deal — they are the most minor of the minor afflictions that can be easily tweezed away. Occasionally, however, they can become dangerous. Even ...