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 ...

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 ...

Fish bones, followed by other types of bones, followed by dentures, are what most often end up in adults' digestive tracts, according to a new review, from Düsseldorf University Hospital, of adults ...

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 ...

Sauropods were some of the most massive creatures to ever live, and many researchers and scientists believe they needed to ...

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 ...

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 ...

A woman was found dead inside the belly of a snake after it swallowed her whole in central Indonesia last week, police said, the second python killing in the province in a month. Siriati, 36, had gone ...

Queer representation in media is, overall, sanitized. Queerness is made palatable for wide audiences, either used as comedy or to convey some perceived-beautiful tragedy that shows just how difficult ...

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