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- IPC Education Referral Campaign - October (random prize drawing: $250 Amazon.com git card!)
- Children's Advil bubble gum flavor recalled due to overdose concerns
- 32 children's medicines recalled over contamination
- FDA warns against eating liquid nitrogen-prepared foods (such as "Dragons-Breath" snack)-FDA
- Fake Weed: The Danger And The Appeal-NPR
- Court Orders EPA To Ban Chlorpyrifos, A Pesticide Linked To Brain Damage In Kids-Huffington Post
- Toxicology Rounds: Powdered Caffeine Can Pack a Poisonous Punch-Emergency Medicine News
- The IPC Celebrates 65 Years of Keeping Illinois Safe
- Plant Causing Blindness, 3rd-Degree Burns Grows In Illinois
- Poison Control-Radiolab
- Don't Touch! A Scientist's Advice For Spotting Poison Ivy Before It Ruins Your Summer-NPR
- Deadly Convenience: Keyless Cars and Their Carbon Monoxide Toll-New York Times
- FDA warns that benzocaine teething products aren't safe for children-CNN
- More U.S. kids overdosing on ADHD drugs-Reuters
- 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
- How To Keep Kids Safe Arround Medicine - Safe Kids Worldwide's research report (March 2018)
- Toxic Pairings: 6 Serious Household-Mixture Mishaps-U.S. News
- Fall Poison Prevention Info and Resources
- 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.
