Toys with lights and electronic sounds are tantalizing to young children — but so, too, are their small, disc-shaped lithium batteries. You’ll find these “button batteries” everywhere: in cameras, ...

As Christmas approaches, there are many warnings around the dangers of button batteries, but experts say more needs to be done about the dangers magnets pose. Here’s why. Children who ingest multiple ...

An 11-year-old boy recently learned a painful life lesson to never stick magnets up his nose again. Having gotten a hold of a set of button magnets, the boy was curious to see if the magnets would ...

Emergency departments saw about the same number of foreign ingestion cases during the pandemic but a higher proportion were batteries and magnets. A study’s abstract findings will be presented at the ...