Lucy Notarantonio is Newsweek's Senior Lifestyle and Trends Reporter, based in Birmingham, UK. Her focus is trending stories and human interest features ranging from health, pets and travel.

A TODDLER was left "coughing up black chunks" then fighting for life after swallowing a button battery from a remote control. The tiny disc got lodged in 16-month-old Asa Allen's throat while he ...

A Noosa mum whose daughter died after ingesting a button battery says they are as dangerous as a "loaded gun". Hungry Jack's says it will introduce a compliance program to ensure it does not again ...

The fast food franchise was slapped with the massive penalties for allegedly breaching Australian Consumer Law by failing to comply with the mandatory button battery information standard.

The toy was compliant with the button battery safety standard, but did not advise consumers that it contained button batteries or provide relevant warnings about the potentially fatal hazards or ...

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Podcast production by Kevin Bendis. Chris Molanphy, a pop-chart analyst and author of Slate’s “Why Is This Song No. 1?” series, tells tales from a half-century of chart history. Through ...

“The signs of button battery ingestion can be difficult to recognise until it’s too late,” he writes in The Conversation. Ingestion causes non-specific symptoms, including coughing ...