ATLANTA — Despite new safety laws aimed at protecting children, button and coin cell batteries remain a potentially deadly hazard. A Consumer Reports investigation found that many household items ...

There are around 6,000 pediatric ER visits for button battery ingestion every year in the United States. If you even suspect your child may have swallowed a button battery, take them to the emergency ...

Button batteries are everywhere these days, powering everything from medical devices to musical birthday cards. But they are also a potentially lethal threat to young children, who ingest them at an ...

Expert tips on keeping your child safe from the risks that tiny batteries pose, and what to do if your child swallows one. Button batteries and lithium coin batteries — small, disk-shaped batteries — ...

FAIRFIELD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--With reports of a recent sharp rise in child ingestion of button batteries, Landsdowne Labs, LLC, a Fairfield, CT. spinout from the world-renowned Langer Lab at MIT, ...

Surgeons are warning of the potentially deadly risk posed to young children by button batteries. If accidentally swallowed, the small, round batteries can get lodged in the oesophagus and burn a hole ...