Children can suffer serious or deadly injuries after swallowing button batteries, which power a wide range of household items. Physicians say serious injury can happen within two hours, sometimes ...

Cute strings of fairy lights, little flameless candles, goofy flashing headbands and dress-up clothes, and tons of toys that blink, beep, and buzz. Around the holidays especially, the market is awash ...

JOPLIN, Mo. (KSNF) — Battery maker Energizer has designed a new safety system for their coin-sized lithium button batteries. In April, Energizer launched their 3-in-1 Child Shield which features three ...

Look around your house. Chances are you’ve got toys and other household items powered by those tiny button-size batteries. What you may not know is that they’re potentially deadly if swallowed. A new ...

More than 70,000 children in the past decade went to the emergency room for swallowing batteries, a new study found, a stark increase from the previous decade. Using data from the National Electronic ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. JOPLIN, Mo. (KSNF) — Battery maker Energizer ...