Accidental ingestion of magnets is a growing problem among children, and parents should be aware of this risk, experts say. In a new study, researchers at a U.K. hospital report two cases of children ...

Therapeutic health magnets (search) pose a real danger to children. Intentional or accidental ingestion may require emergency surgery, doctors say. Children (or adults) who swallow more than one ...

You’ve probably heard that strong, small magnets are dangerous for children. You would not give a toddler a neodymium magnet for any reason; you know that two of them, if swallowed, can connect inside ...

A 13-year-old boy was admitted to hospital after four days of abdominal pain – when he then admitted to doctors that he'd ...

While the danger of magnets for children is increasingly recognized, they don't receive treatment for swallowing them as quickly as needed, and parents don't receive sufficient warning on toys, ...

Swallowing multiple magnets could result in them being attracted to each other in a child's intestine. (Stock, Getty Images) Whether it's buttons or coins, small children often mistakenly swallow ...

Neodymium is a rare-earth metal element used to make some of the strongest magnets available and they can be easy to buy ...

In times past, the only magnets children were likely to be around were large, weak ones that held the letters of the alphabet to the family refrigerator. But a new kind of magnet being widely used in ...

In a shocking incident from New Zealand, a 13-year-old boy had to undergo a tricky surgery after he swallowed dozens of ...

As a pediatric gastroenterologist, I learned one thing very early in my training: children swallow almost everything. Once, as a resident, I cared for a small child who swallowed the horse and rider ...

A 13-year-old boy in New Zealand swallowed up to 100 high-power magnets he bought on Temu, forcing surgeons to remove tissue ...