The government took aim at sets of small, high-powered magnets. The brand names include Buckyballs, and Magni-cubes. The Consumer Product Safety Commission wants them off the market. One child has ...
A federal safety agency warned this past week that small, powerful magnets have been linked to seven deaths after they were ingested, announcing one company’s voluntary recall of a toy set that ...
As every parent knows, kids like to swallow things. Much of the time, the foreign objects safely pass through the child’s gastrointestinal tract without difficulty—especially if the ingested object is ...
This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Consumer Product ...
A 13-year-old boy was admitted to hospital after four days of abdominal pain – when he then admitted to doctors that he'd swallowed 80-100 small, high-powered magnets a week earlier. X-rays revealed ...
A federal safety agency warned this past week that small, powerful magnets have been linked to seven deaths after they were ingested, announcing one company’s voluntary recall of a toy set that ...