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- Rubber playground surfaces may contain high lead levels
- Spring in bloom—is it toxic?
- IPC and EMS – Partners for LIFE - National EMS/EMSC Week (May 19-25)
- Cancer is killing firefighters: Toxins found in burning materials
- NEW! Remove the Risk (FDA campaign) re: how to dispose of medications, particularly opioids.
- Gum won't sit in your stomach for 7 years if you swallow it. Here's what can actually happen
- Study: ER visits due to kids swallowing toys, coins, batteries and more nearly doubled-Newsday
- Some E-cigarette Users Are Having Seizures, Most Reports Involving Youth and Young Adults-FDA
- “Inactive” ingredients may not be, study finds (gluten, dairy, food dye, soybean/peanut oil, etc.)-MIT News (video)
- Uh oh! I shouldn’t have put that…in my mouth! (part 1 re: toothpaste errors)
- Teen hookah users run risk of heart disease, poisoning
- Arsenic and Lead Are in Your Fruit Juice: What You Need to Know-Consumer Reports
- For a Child’s Cough, the Best Medicine Is No Medicine-The New York Times
- Spring Poison Prevention Info and Resources
- Fake Weed: The Danger And The Appeal-NPR
- Poison Control-Radiolab
- Deadly Convenience: Keyless Cars and Their Carbon Monoxide Toll-New York Times
- Health Check Kids: Accidental poisoning - Every 9 minutes, a child under the age of six has to be rushed to the hospital because of an accidental poisoning. Every 12 days, a child under the age of six dies from an accidental medicine-related poisoning
- 11 Numbers You Should Have on Speed Dial - Mental Floss
- Toxic Pairings: 6 Serious Household-Mixture Mishaps-U.S. News
- Every 45 minutes, a child is poisoned by opioids as epidemic grows
- More Americans Are Dying Each Year by Accident-Overdose and accidental poisonings are up 78 percent over a decade — pushing aside car crashes as the No. 1 accidental killer in the U.S.
