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 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 ...

A game of beer pong landed a 19-year-old man in the operating room after he unknowingly swallowed a metal bottle cap - an unusual medical emergency that doctors say carries serious, potentially ...

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 ...

Society's move to cashless payments may have had an unintended positive side effect, surgeons say - fewer children needing operations or procedures to remove swallowed coins. The Ear, Nose and Throat ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A psychiatric patient at Yale New Haven Hospital continued to swallow wires out of surgical masks, as well as batteries and other ...