With temperatures in Alabama falling below freezing this week, a poison control expert at Children’s of Alabama wants to remind people about the dangers of carbon monoxide poisoning. She says it can happen during the [Read More]
Becky Devore is a Nurse Educator with the Alabama Poison Information Center. She offers some helpful tips to make your holiday celebrations more enjoyable. Starting with the turkey, Devore says it’s not necessary to wash [Read More]
Every year thousands of people become victims of holiday scams. The Better Business Bureau recently released the top scams to be on guard against in the 2021 holiday season, including: Illegitimate Websites: cyber criminals set [Read More]
Water safety is a topic that can be easy to skim over, especially for families who don’t live near a body of water that they often visit or have a pool at home. However, avoiding [Read More]
The Window Covering Safety Council (WCSC) and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are urging consumers to check their window coverings, especially this month, for exposed or dangling cords which can pose a strangulation [Read More]
The summits will be held on Nov. 4, and Dec. 7. Funded through a grant from State Farm, these two events will be hosted virtually by teen driving experts working with students to address the [Read More]
The Birmingham area and other surrounding counties are full of railroad crossings. Trains are exciting and fun for many reasons: The size, the speed, the sounds. But railroad tracks and train crossings can be dangerous [Read More]
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Last year, 26 child hot car deaths occurred in the United States, with three reported from Alabama, according to www.kidsandcars.org. This year, seven deaths have been reported in the United States. Candice Dye, M.D., a pediatrician at [Read More]
Following the Colonial Pipeline closure earlier this year, a great deal of attention was focused on how not to transport gasoline and other fuels. During Fuel Safety Month in July, experts at Scepter® provide insights on how to [Read More]
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