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 ...

There’s been a huge development for people who may someday swallow a battery, Lego, coin, doggy toy, or even an AirPod (one guy found out that even after passing through his digestive system, it still ...

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 ...

<br>This week doctors in Portland, Ore., <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Health/year-swallows-37-magnets/story?id=15850517#.T1aqsXEu_H8" target="_blank">removed 37 ...

Internal medicine and rheumatology specialist Siobhan Deshauer, MD, reviews several unique cases of foreign body ingestion. Following is a partial transcript of the video (note that errors are ...

Surgeons in Hapur successfully removed 29 steel spoons, 19 toothbrushes, and two pens from a man's stomach, revealing a case linked to psychological d ...

A psychiatric patient at Yale New Haven Hospital continued to swallow wires out of surgical masks, as well as batteries and other objects, despite orders of one-to-one observation, according to a ...

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 ...