A federal safety agency warned this past week that small, powerful magnets have been linked to seven deaths after they were ingested, announcing one company’s voluntary recall of a toy set that ...

On a winter evening inside a Michigan home hit hard by COVID-19 this past January, a toddler fell ill. Her name was RayLynn. Stream NBC 5 for free, 24/7, wherever you are. While the 14-month-old ...

If Ed Scruggs, of Austin, Texas, hadn’t seen it for himself, he might never have believed it. But there it was on his 11-year-old daughter’s X-ray: a string of tiny, super-strong spherical magnets in ...

LEIPZIG, GERMANY — Children frequently ingest small magnets from magnetic construction kits, board games, 3D puzzles, figurines, or doll clothing. The consequences can be fatal, warned Felicitas ...

High-powered magnetic balls sold at Walmart have been recalled after the Consumer Product Safety Commission warned about risk of choking, injury, and death. Thousands of sets of high-powered magnetic ...

The US Consumer Product Safety Commission issued several warnings for high-powered magnetic balls in toy sets, after the agency said it was aware of seven deaths linked to swallowing small magnets.

As every parent knows, kids like to swallow things. Much of the time, the foreign objects safely pass through the child’s gastrointestinal tract without difficulty—especially if the ingested object is ...

Magnetic Cube toy recalled in Canada after failing safety tests for magnet strength, posing a serious ingestion hazard to ...