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Attention holiday toy shoppers: A new study finds that toy-related injuries increased over recent decades — at least if you include one particular toy. A new study from Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children's Hospital, Columbus explains.
There's an epidemic going on that most people don't know about.
Every day around the world, more than 500 children lose their lives in traffic crashes. Tens of thousands are injured, sometimes suffering lifelong disabilities. Not only are children at high risk in vehicles, on bicycles, and on motorcycles, they are vulnerable as pedestrians and are often injured or killed in the simple act of walking to school.
New #SaveKidsLives campaign launched to build awareness, highlight the plight of children, and generate worldwide action
Washington, D.C. – Road safety is a global epidemic that is not getting nearly the attention it deserves. That was the message from leaders from more than 30 countries around the world, who met this week for a summit on global road safety to collaborate on efforts to enhance the safety of children on the roads.
Advice for new dads from a veteran (who is still learning)
At the beginning of every youth basketball season, all the coaches receive an e-mail from the league commissioner encouraging us to ask the parents to be respectful of the officials.
So before the first practice, I gather all the parents on the sideline and I ask them very nicely and politely to give the refs a break this year. At that point – and this happens every year – my wife, Dixie (who I love more than root beer milkshakes), yells, “You can’t tell us what to do.” And that’s the end of that.
I saw a video created by Safe Kids Brazil that shook my world, especially the message at the end. The closing message in the video was that our smallest citizens don't know how to prevent injury, so we better know. While not nearly as eloquent or poetic, I have been thinking about this concept because it is an important one as we try to convince decision-makers to pass good laws and smart policy. Because the smallest kids can't prevent the preventable, so there are times when adults must act.
We have some exciting news to share. Safe Kids has entered into a new partnership with Nationwide.
Nationwide has an outstanding reputation for giving back to the community. With this new partnership, they are taking that commitment to the next level.
Nationwide Launches 'Make Safe Happen' to Reduce No. 1 Cause of Death Among Children
Safe Kids Worldwide and CEA Mark January 31 as National TV Safety Day
It’s been a long time since my mother has given me medicine. After all, it’s been more than a decade since I last lived at home – and even before I left the nest, as a young adult I’d figured out how to put on my big girl pants and take my cough medicine all by myself.
With people still talking about the Nationwide Super Bowl ad that brought dramatic attention to the number one killer of kids, preventable injuries, we’re releasing new research that reveals the scope of the problem in a place most parents assume is safe: the home. Every day, six children die from an injury in the home, and 10,000 go to the emergency department for the kinds of injuries that commonly happen in homes.