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Swallowed Magnets Attract Trouble In Boy's Stomach, Surgeons Urge VigilanceFour-year-old Braden Eberle of San Jose holds a pair of small, rare-earth magnets, similar to the ones he swallowed in 2007. The magnets snapped together in his intestinal tract, pinching the tissue. (Credit: Lucile Packard Children's Hospital) ScienceDaily (Feb. 6, 2008) — Four-year-old Braden Eberle was worried. “Mom, I swallowed something,” said the San Jose boy. His mother, Jill, reassured him when she learned that it was just a tiny magnet that had slipped loose from a construction-type toy. But the next day, he swallowed another. “I didn’t think anything of...

Long before the Bible's tale of Jonah being swallowed by a whale, a small wannabe star has emerged intact after being engulfed by a neighboring giant star, scientists say. The victim was a brown dwarf, a failed star too small to sustain the nuclear reactions that ignites regular stars. The purpetrator was a red giant, an ancient star that once resembled our Sun but which puffed up to enormous size after its hydrogen fuel was depleted. The red giant has since expelled most of its gas into space and transformed into a dense, Earth-sized star called a white dwarfs. Using...

TULSA, Okla. - A family sitting down to dinner had to call police and an ambulance after a man allegedly bit off the nose of his girlfriend, authorities said. Jody Bennett came out of a back room of a north Tulsa residence on Thursday with a napkin over her face and said her boyfriend, identified as Greg Hill, had bitten her nose. Medics responding to the house saw that Bennett's nose had been severed and called police. "We looked around and tried to find a nose but couldn't find it," Cpl. Larry Edwards, a police spokesman, said. "I think he...

IYADH (AFP) - A Saudi medical team reportedly removed a toothbrush from the stomach of a man who had swallowed it 22 years ago. According to the official SPA news agency, the toothbrush caused the 70-year-old patient no ill effects until a few days before he was operated on, said Dr Abdulrahman al-Zahrani, the head of the team at King Abdul Aziz Specialist Hospital in the western town of Taif. The operation was successful, Zahrani added.

Has US swallowed Turkish surprise? March 22 2003 at 01:41AM By Orhan Coskun Ankara - Turkey said on Friday it had agreed to allow United States warplanes to overfly Turkish territory in attacks on Iraq, but rejected American demands it keep its troops out of the Kurdish-controlled north. Parliament approved the overflights on Thursday as the US unleashed its attack on Iraq. But Ankara then linked use of airspace to free access for its troops to Iraq. The United States, which sees an attack from the north as a way of relieving the burden on an invasion force now pressing...