Entertaining and necessary, Dr. Yolanda McElroy has taken on the plight of educating children and saving lives as she realizes that teaching is the one way to prevent a crisis that should never exist.
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New Research Reveals Medications Are the Leading Cause of Accidental Poisoning Deaths Among Children Today
“Safe Storage, Safe Dosing” Campaign to Focus on Medication Safety
Washington, DC – Today Safe Kids Worldwide released a new research report that found while the death rate among children from poisoning has been cut in half since the late 1970s, the percentage of all child poisoning deaths due to medications has nearly doubled, from 36 percent to 64 percent.
Safe Storage, Safe Dosing, Safe Kids: A Report to the Nation on Safe Medication examines trends in morbidity and mortality of medication poisoning among children ages 14 and under. The report underscores the challenge of medication-related poisoning among children and offers solutions that will reverse the trends. Safe Kids also proposes specific roles that parents and other caregivers, industry, governments, and the medical community can play in improving medication safety through safe storage and safe dosing.