The toothpick poked through the young man's intestinal wall and led to a life-threatening severed artery Julie Mazziotta is the Senior Sports Editor at PEOPLE, covering everything from the NFL to ...

A new case study in the New England Journal of Medicine looks at the dangers. Before you bite into that sandwich, take a closer look. Toothpicks have been known to injure thousands more people every ...

We’ve all seen that too-cool guy in movies chew on a toothpick to assert his fully unbothered persona. But if he were to swallow that toothpick accidentally, that guy—and his body—would be extremely ...

U.L. Washington, a former MLB shortstop who was known for playing with a toothpick in his mouth during his 11-year career, reportedly died on Sunday after a battle with cancer. He was 70. The Canadian ...

The plain wooden toothpick is among the sim­plest of manufactured things. It consists of a single part, made of a single material, and is intended for a single purpose, from which it takes its name.

A San Francisco artist has spent the past 39 years perfecting the art of toothpick modeling, a genre we can safely say he now has the authority on. Steven Backman took up the unusual hobby at just ...

When a woman who had been feeling progressively weaker for months visited an emergency room with nausea, vomiting and low blood pressure, doctors diagnosed her as having an abdominal infection and ...