The variety of non-food items that children place into their mouths is alarming. Coins, batteries, magnets, needles, pins, tacks, glass, wood, earrings, rings and toy or game pieces are some of the ...

Toree McGowan had a patient who swallowed a mini bulb from a string of Christmas lights: "If you look closely on his X-ray, it looks like the small bowel has a great idea."Toree McGowan Emergency ...

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A magnetic slime robot is a prototype that aims to recover swallowed objects that made their way to the body and have no chance of getting digested by a person's organs. Some things remain on the body ...

A robot made of magnetic slime could be deployed inside the body to perform tasks such as retrieving objects swallowed by accident.https://t.co/EYpnx56vNO pic.twitter ...

A Rhode Island Hospital report shows that 33 patients needed 305 medical interventions to remove foreign objects, including knives, razor blades, and batteries that were intentionally swallowed, ...

KNOXVILLE (WATE) – Children are curious, especially toddlers, and they often investigate by putting everything they can reach into their mouths. This can result in children accidentally swallowing all ...

Emergency physicians have found a range of strange objects inside their patients. Patients have come to the ER after swallowing toothbrushes, lightbulbs, and kitchen utensils. Doctors will often let ...

A lawyer holds a battery that was removed from a toddler’s esophagus Dec. 21, 2016, at a news conference in Jacksonville, Fla. A study published Friday in the journal Pediatrics found a sharp increase ...