The deaths of three children led the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) to issue a recall of over 5 million window blinds, according to the CPSC web site. The three incidences include a 4-year-old girl who was strangled by a vertical blind cord in 2006. In 2007, a 1-year-old boy became entangled and strangled in…
A two year old boy was accidentally run over by his father’s truck in his driveway in Lumberton, North Carolina (NC) over the weekend. The police report filed by Lumberton police officer J.W. Scott reports that the accident happened around 2:30 p.m. and it is unclear if the toddler was in front of or behind…
On July 31, 2009, an elderly man, 79, was switching lanes on Interstate 81 (I-81) southbound when he clipped the front of a tractor trailer and incited a crash involving three vehicles. This caused the driver of the truck to lose control and barrel across the median and northbound lanes of I-81. The truck did…
A pair of women on vacation near Myrtle Beach were killed while parasailing off of the coast of North Carolina this past weekend.
One unfortunate consequence of osteoporosis is hip fractures. Thankfully, for the past two decades the rate of hip fractures has fallen drastically in Canada. A very similar pattern has been occurring in the United States. However, the cause of these trends is unknown. Factors that may be reasons as to why the rate of hip…