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 ...

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.

Innocuous magnetic balls - meant for children to create different shapes - caused a major health scare for a two-year-old boy in the city, when he accidentally swallowed five of magnetic beads and a ...

High-powered magnetic balls sold at Walmart have been recalled over the risk of them being swallowed, leading to serious injuries and possibly even death. The recall comes amid warnings earlier this ...

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 ...

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 ...

Magnetic bead separation is a fast, effective, and clean process that scientists use as an alternative to filtration and centrifugation techniques for separation. Magnetic beads and particles can be ...

A teenager had to have surgery to remove 29 magnetic balls from his bladder - three months after he put them up his penis. The "curious" schoolboy named Li, 13, suffered intense abdominal pain - but ...

Magnetic beads (or superparamagnetic particles) can be used for the isolation and purification of cells, nucleic acids, proteins or any other biomolecules. The surface of magnetic beads can be coated ...