From earrings to Christmas ornaments, children are swallowing objects at a rate that’s been rising over the last two decades, with battery ingestions increasing “rather dramatically,” new research has ...

MIT engineers design smart pill that confirms medication ingestion using biodegradable antenna technology. The pill safely ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

A man in Ireland swallowed an entire cellphone that became lodged in his stomach and was tricky to remove, according to a new report of the case. The 29-year-old man was a prisoner who was brought to ...

Kids will put anything in their mouths, and usually this doesn't cause serious harm. But for one 4-year-old boy in Saudi Arabia, swallowing a bobby pin led to a perforated intestine, a pierced kidney ...

A 51-year-old man unintentionally swallowed a dental crown, resulting in an unusual case of appendicitis caused by ingestion of a foreign body, according to a case report published April 12 in the ...

Call him Adrián, who was swallowed by a whale and lived to tell the tale. In a new interview, Adrián described what it was like being scooped up inside the creature's mouth, nothing that he didn't ...