A: Foreign-object ingestion and food-bolus impaction occur commonly. The majority of foreign bodies (ie, foreign objects and food bolus) that reach the stomach will pass spontaneously. However, 10% to ...

Children are naturally curious and often wonder how things work. Usually, they display this curiosity by asking questions, or by exploring the world around them. One of the dangers that can occur as a ...

Nearly 4,000 people are hospitalized with foreign objects in their rectum each year, according to a new study published last month in The American Journal of Emergency Medicine — with many of the ...

One hospital was fined because it had shower knobs that allowed a teenage girl to hang herself. Another got into hot water after doctors left a piece of tubing inside a heart-surgery patient. And a ...

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork)-- The last thing you expect to find in your food are metal shards and other foreign objects. Increasingly, manufacturers are recalling products because they contain mystery bits ...