Brooklyn Police Lt. Gannon Wood suffered multiple broken ribs, a ruptured spleen and a punctured lung when a tree fell on his ...

Lt. Gannon Wood is now home after eight days in the hospital following the incident on North Church Street, in front of Brooklyn Elementary School.

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Spleen pain may feel like discomfort in the upper left side of the abdomen. It can occur for a range of reasons, including inflammation or injury. The treatment will depend on the underlying cause.

Wenzhou Medical University researchers have reimagined the spleen as a viable site for islet transplantation, enabling long-term diabetes control without the burden of full immunosuppression ...

Roughly the size of an avocado and tucked under the left side of the rib cage just above the stomach, the spleen’s usual responsibilities include filtering damaged blood cells and supporting the ...

Surgeon Removes Woman's Healthy Kidney Instead of Spleen, Leaving Her with Stage 5 Kidney Disease: Lawsuit Claims Wendy Rappaport was hospitalized for two months after she said in a lawsuit that ...

Woman accuses Twin Cities surgeon of removing wrong organ A Twin Cities woman is suing over an alleged medical mistake that she says cost her a healthy left kidney. In a lawsuit filed Friday ...

Woodward was a longtime pig spleen protegé, as his uncle leaned into the tradition during his retirement in the late 1990s. But he became the official prognosticator when Wickstrom died in 2007.

Thomas J. Shaknovksy had his license suspended by the Florida surgeon general after he was accused of removing a patients liver instead of the spleen back in August. Zarzaur Law Bryan and his wife ...

According to the state's order, removing Bryan's liver instead of his spleen was not Shaknovsky's first medical mistake. In May of 2023, Shaknovsky removed a portion of a patient’s pancreas ...