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.

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 ...

Doctors saved a 3-year-old from developing a potentially deadly illness by pulling a string of dozens of magnetic toy beads from his insides. The child, identified only as Tomich, had swallowed 31 ...

Mag Cube -- a children's toy which uses dozens of tiny magnetic balls -- has been recalled because it could cause internal injuries if the balls are swallowed and then link together inside the body.

Toy maker has been under continued pressure from the federal government. Oct. 31, 2012— -- Maxfield & Oberton, the maker of Buckyballs and Buckycubes, popular office toys made up of small ...

A doctor has spoken out after a deadly magnetic ball craze has seen at least four children needing emergency surgery. The tiny balls are used by youngsters to pretend they have facial piercings and ...

Ellis Tripp, an 11-year-old boy in Worcestershire, a county in the West Midlands region of England, was reported to have been "fighting for his life" after accidentally swallowing five small magnetic ...

A mother has issued a warning to other parents after her two-year-old daughter 'almost died' from swallowing six magnetic 'fidget' balls - which burned four holes in her bowel. Jade Berriman, 31, said ...

Doctors in eastern China had to remove 61 magnetic beads from the belly of a four-year-old girl and patch up more than a dozen holes they had punched through the wall of her intestine, local media ...