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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

CHICAGO — The number of young kids who went to U.S. emergency rooms because they swallowed toys, coins, batteries and other objects has nearly doubled, a new study says. In 2015, there were nearly ...

Society's move to cashless payments may have had an unintended positive side effect, surgeons say - fewer children needing operations or procedures to remove swallowed coins. The Ear, Nose and Throat ...

The 2-year-old's parents took her to hospital after she vomited and fell unconscious. Surgeons found a 3-inch long stick piercing her small intestine.

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 ...

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 ...