Medical experts say spoon was precariously lodged, with even minor movements posing a risk of intestinal perforation or ...

A Chinese man unknowingly carried a 15-centimetre ceramic spoon in his duodenum for six months after a boozy night in ...

A 29-year-old Chinese man had a 15cm ceramic spoon removed from his intestine six months after accidentally swallowing it while intoxicated in Thailand. He experienced abdominal pain and sought ...

Surely, that much plastic would gunk up our cognitive machinery. You probably don’t have quite that much of the stuff in your brain, but the idea of any plastic piling up there is still unnerving.

Ontario: A plastic spoon’s worth of plastic is inside your brain, researchers warned on Tuesday, showing alarming new evidence about microplastic accumulation in human brain tissue. Published in ...

A plastic spoon's worth of plastic is inside your brain, researchers warned on Tuesday, showing alarming new evidence about microplastic accumulation in human brain tissue. Published in the ...

Your brain may have a plastic spoon’s worth of microplastics, ... They also discovered clusters of tiny plastic fragments as small as 200 nanometers or smaller—about the size of viruses.

In the most extreme case, the researchers estimated the brain was 0.48% plastic, meaning the particles added up to a couple of grams — the weight of a typical plastic spoon.

Nearly a year after McDonald’s ditched the hollow plastic spoon, more changes are coming for the McFlurry. Beginning September 10, the chain is eliminating the plastic, dome-shaped lid and ...