Low iron doesn’t always show up on basic labs, but the symptoms can take over your entire life. These are the low iron symptoms you shouldn’t ignore—the ones that make you exhausted, dizzy, short of breath, anxious, foggy, and unable to function normally. Mild iron deficiency can affect your energy, oxygen levels, heart, brain, and hormones long before you’re “technically” anemic. If you’re dealing with unexplained fatigue, hair shedding, cravings for ice, heavy periods, lightheadedness, or cons

Following the death of her daughter, Trista Hamsmith turned her grief into action to help make button batteries harder for kids to access — but the law that passed didn’t apply to toys. Hamsmith tried to get the Consumer Product Safety Commission to apply the standard to toys, but the effort stalled over the summer. The agency has lost key leadership and staff, and now, two former CPSC commissioners are issuing warnings to consumers: