A little boy in China has had 123 magnetic beads removed from his stomach after he swallowed them while watching TV. The five-year-old is said to have been eating the toy balls one after another while ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Doctors at Monroe Carell Jr. Children’s Hospital at Vanderbilt are warning parents after seeing an uptick in cases of children ingesting magnetic beads. The beads are meant ...

New Orleans- The one year old boy who swallowed eight magnetic beads a month ago, eats through a feeding tube. Doctors removed most of his intestines. The toddler took his first steps after a month ...

In March of last year, a company recalled DigiDots 3mm and 5mm magnetic balls after it received reports of children swallowing them and requiring surgery to remove them. According to the U.S. Consumer ...

Doctors in eastern China had to remove 61 magnetic beads from the belly of a four-year-old girl and patch up more than a dozen holes they had punched through the wall of her intestine, local media ...

They go by many names like Buckyballs, Nanodots, Neocubes and Zen Magnets, to name a few. They’re little magnetic beads, most often sold as novelty desk toys, that can be built into any shape. But the ...

A 5-year-old Chinese boy was so attracted to magnets that he swallowed 123 of them in the form of beads — which had to be removed from his stomach during a four-hour operation, according to a report.

Tiny magnetic beads that move through the blood and 'drill' through blocked arteries could be a new treatment for heart disease. Arteries become clogged when cholesterol, calcium and other substances ...

Doctors saved a 3-year-old from developing a potentially deadly illness by pulling a string of dozens of magnetic toy beads from his insides. The child, identified only as Tomich, had swallowed 31 ...