Accidental childhood poisonings mostly due to medicines

Tuesday, August 4, 2009 - 03:07 in Health & Medicine

More than two-thirds of all emergency department visits for childhood poisoning involve prescription and over-the-counter medications, more than twice the rate of poisonings from consumer products, reports a new study from the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)...

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