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 ...

This is a story of bloodshed and cupcakes and our stupid-expensive health care system. It is a Tale of Two Splinters. Two journalists walked into the Star Tribune newsroom this summer with splinters ...

Endocarditis is inflammation in the heart’s inner lining. One possible symptom is splinter hemorrhages, thin red or reddish-brown lines under the fingernails. These lines appear when small blood ...