Yesterday was magnet day — or more specifically, danger-of-magnets-in-toys day. In Washington, the Consumer Product Safety Commission held a forum to discuss ways to reduce the risk of injury ...

If you're after 'turn your refrigerator into a Game Boy with a dry-erase board' magnets, your options are limited pretty much exclusively to this FreezerBoy magnet set, which is available from ...

Magnets are found all over the place. They hold items on the refrigerator while also holding the door shut. Our banking cards have magnetic strips — as do speakers, motors, and automatic doors.

But because of their high magnetic field strength and low production costs, they are being used in computer hard drives, headphones and hi-fi speakers, as well as toys, jewellery and even clothes.

A 9-year-old girl was pretending she had a lip piercing, sticking one high-powered Buckyball magnet on the inside of her lip, and another one on the outside. It may have looked cool, but when she m… ...

Super-strong magnets are still sold as desk toys, and children are swallowing the small high-powered magnets, which can lead to serious injury and death. Consumer Reports explains how how to avoid ...

A surgeon has warned parents not to buy toys with magnets in this Christmas after incidents were children have swallowed them have shot up five-fold. New research from The Children’s Surgery ...