Last year, Florida Poison Control received 83 calls and 86 patients during the Halloween season. For some perspective, in the entire year, it had 311 calls and 318 patients. The number one source of ...

Twenty-three years ago, I was there when we started Alaska’s first statewide poison center. On June 30, I will sign off at midnight for the last time. The poison center system in Alaska did not exist ...

New York’s relationship with the Internet is toxic. Adults overwhelmingly made up the majority of subjects who called the city’s Poison Control Center last Halloween — but not because they’re suddenly ...

Every 30 seconds in the United States, a child swallows something they should not. Doctors at WakeMed's Children's Emergency Department see at least one or two accidental ingestions a day. So what do ...