If you suspect your child has ingested a button battery, head to the emergency room for an X-ray. Don’t wait. “It's always good to go in and just have that peace of mind. If it gets stuck ...

But it is challenging to observe how these structures change while a battery charges and discharges. Typical X-ray diffraction measurements necessitate dissembling the battery to analyse its ...

Reese’s Purpose is now funding the development of a medical device to be used in any doctor’s office that could quickly and easily detect a button battery in a child’s body without an X-ray.