Shreyas Iyer suffered a horrific spleen injury during the third ODI against Australia at Sydney Cricket Ground in October.

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Research reveals how natural selection shaped the Bajau sea nomads’ spleens to boost oxygen delivery, helping them dive for ...

ITP affects about 5 people per 10,000. It can be associated with other conditions that are hematologic (leukemia) or ...

An Alabama woman is seeking legal action against a surgeon whom she alleges removed her late husband's liver instead of his spleen. On the evening of August 21, Thomas Shaknovsky, DO, operated on ...

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From the Thorndike Memorial Laboratory, the Second and Fourth (Harvard) Medical Services, the Mallory Institute of Pathology, Boston City Hospital, the Collis P. Huntington Memorial Hospital, and the ...

Wendy Rappaport was hospitalized for two months after she said in a lawsuit that her healthy kidney was removed instead of her spleen Jerry Holt/Star Tribune via Getty A Minnesota woman has filed a ...

A woman says she spent two months in the hospital following a surgical mix-up. A Minnesota woman in her 80s is now living with stage 5 kidney disease after a surgeon allegedly removed her kidney ...

Back pain affects millions of people worldwide, but not all discomfort stems from muscular issues or spinal problems. Sometimes, that ache in your back serves as your body’s warning system for ...

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, Wendy Rappaport of Plymouth accuses the surgeon and the Allina ...

Spleen stiffness measurement (SSM) demonstrated strong predictive accuracy for liver decompensation in patients with compensated advanced chronic liver disease (cACLD), with an optimal cutoff of 50 ...