Look around the house. There s danger hiding in plain sight. Seemingly harmless items like key fobs, electronics, watches, hearing aids, singing greeting cards, remote controls and even children s toys contain bite-sized or button batteries that can cause serious, even fatal injuries if swallowed.
So far this year, the New Jersey Poison Control has referred 11 children to hospital emergency rooms for swallowing button batteries, said Dr. Diane Calello, executive and medical director of the New Jersey Poison Control Center at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.
Health damage caused by swallowed batteries
She said it does not take very long for a battery to begin to cause serious injury once it gets stuck inside the body. Button batteries have been around a long time and could always cause a burn in the esophagus, creating a burn that won t heal.
UpdatedThu, May 6, 2021 at 2:41 pm ET
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Dr. Rajendra Kapila (Provided by Rutgers University)
NEW BRUNSWICK, NJ A highly esteemed Rutgers University professor, who actually founded the department of infectious disease at the university, has died, the university confirmed.
The professor is Dr. Rajendra Kapila, who died at the age of 81, according to reports. ABC 7 and the Hindustan Times, an Indian news outlet, reported that he died of COVID-19.
A Rutgers University spokeswoman confirmed his death, but could not comment on how Dr. Kapila died, saying medical records are private.
Subscribe Both Rutgers New Jersey Medical School and University Hospital are saddened by the untimely passing of Rajendra Kapila, MD, professor of medicine, said Rutgers.
May 4, 2021
The long-term impact of Novichok isn t clear but some of Alexei Navalny s ailments appear to coincide with researchers understanding of nerve agents.
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Vladimir Putin’s most prominent critic is slowly starting to eat again, after a 24-day hunger strike in prison. Experts say the Kremlin not only holds the keys to Alexei Navalny’s freedom… but to knowledge of health problems he still faces from being poisoned. We don t have a lot of experience with this in people, says Lewis Nelson, the Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at Rutgers New Jersey Medical School.
Some doctors say the dissident is likely experiencing long-term effects from exposure to Novichok nerve agent last year. And at a prison east of Moscow months later, the 44-year-old said he was denied adequate health care. So began a dangerous hunger strike.
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The authors are Helen M. Genova, PhD, of Kessler Foundation s Center for Neuropsychology and Neuroscience Research, and Stefano Ziccardi, PhD, Marco Pitteri, PhD, and Massimiliano Calabrese, MD, of the University of Verona. Dr. Genova also has an academic appointment at Rutgers University.
Some recent MS research, including work led by Dr. Genova, has shown that social cognition deficits may affect people with MS who otherwise have no other cognitive impairments. Social cognition, which is required to understand and process the emotions of others, is an extremely important skill set for forming successful relationships with others, and deficits in this area can significantly affect a person s quality of life.