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- 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)
- DEA National Take-Back Day (Rx medications) - Sat. April 27, 2019
- 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
- Opioids now more deadly for Americans than traffic accidents -HealthDay
- For a Child’s Cough, the Best Medicine Is No Medicine-The New York Times
- Spring Poison Prevention Info and Resources
- Weight-loss supplements contain dangerous stimulants years after being prohibited-LiveScience
- Fake Weed: The Danger And The Appeal-NPR
- Poison Control-Radiolab
- Deadly Convenience: Keyless Cars and Their Carbon Monoxide Toll-New York Times
- 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
- 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.
