Norton Children’s Hospital is emphasizing the dangers of button batteries that may come in toys children receive for Christmas. Within the past month, Norton Children’s emergency department has seen ...

IT should be the season of goodwill to all, but the festive season can be littered with hazards. People have been warned to ...

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 ...

Andrea Shoesmith has been campaigning for action to prevent children swallowing button batteries since her daughter died nine years ago, and next week she will finally see change. Button batteries are ...

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 ...

Australian surf shop City Beach has been fined $14 million for selling tens of thousands of non-compliant button battery products. The retailer has admitted to selling products, including toys, ...

Fashion retailer Fewstone, trading as City Beach, has been ordered by the Federal Court to pay $14 million in penalties for selling non-compliant ...

CHARLOTTE — 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 ...

Your kid is about to get some new battery-operated toys. Here's how to keep them safe. (Getty Images) No matter how many Montessori-style wooden toys a baby has, there’s no replacing the delight in ...

Small, shiny button batteries are easy to find in Australian homes, and they have caused immeasurable pain to families across the country. About 20 children present to hospital emergency departments ...

The three-year-old from the Sunshine Coast became the first child to die in Australia from swallowing a lithium battery, also known as a button battery, in 2013. A coronial inquest into Summer’s death ...

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 ...