Don’t let a splinter get out of hand — a California ER doctor is sharing his simple removal hack. Dr. Joe Whittington, who goes by Dr. Joe on TikTok, recommends getting a clean, unused medicine ...

The carefree barefoot days of summer can increase your risk of getting a splinter -- pieces of wood or other foreign bodies that are partially or fully stuck in the skin. Most splinters are easily ...

Routine procedures such as splinter removal and wart treatment are increasingly billed as surgeries, leading to unexpected costs for patients. When George Lai of Portland, Oregon, took his toddler son ...

When my 3-year-old came home from preschool with a splinter in two of his fingers, I immediately turned the tweezers over to my husband. “I’m just not good at getting them out,” I told my son, even as ...

A: We have several options to help speed splinter removal. Many readers have written about applying white glue (for example, Elmer’s) under a bandage for a few hours. Others have used duct tape over ...

You may remember as a child having a needle-welding parent dig a splinter out of your skin while you wiggled and winched. The sharp prick of the needle was probably worse than the splinter itself.

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But post-pandemic, the idea has been revived, with the FDA looking at the question anew and a number of startup companies working to develop an at-home flu test, though it’s not clear when the first ...