Home Safety Devices

Installing home safety devices could reduce children's risk for injury up to 70%.
HealthDay (4/14, Preidt) reported that home safety devices "greatly reduce the number of injuries sustained by small children," according to a study in the Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine. Researchers looked at "two groups of families with newborns. One set of families had properly installed and maintained safety devices in their homes." After two years of follow-up, children in the homes "with the safety devices had 70-percent fewer home-related injuries that required medical attention than did the children in the other group." Notably, about "2,800 children die from preventable injuries in the home, and millions more are treated in hospital emergency rooms," each year in the US, according to the researchers.