The transmission happens within 10 minutes of a pill being swallowed, researchers said. The antenna then breaks down and is ...

MIT engineers have developed a pill that can wirelessly report when it’s been swallowed. Inside the capsule is a ...

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 ...

Swallowed toothbrush circled in red (Image courtesy A. Heffess, M.D.) Dr. Alejandro Heffess first encountered the toothbrush mystery back in around 2003, when he was a radiology resident at Mount ...