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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Doctors give another urgent warning that the magnetic beads found in kids' and adult desk toys can be deadly. Six months ago, a Mississippi toddler swallowed eight beads and lost almost all of his ...

Magnetic beads sold as novelty items are potentially deadly in the hands and mouths of children, and Health Canada is now reviewing the issue. Two serious incidents involving injuries of Canadian ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...