(MENAFN- GetNews) When it comes to child safety, every detail in the home matters – and PVC venetian blinds with traditional cord designs are no exception. In Europe and America, where regulations on ...

A pediatrician is calling for Venetian blinds to be redesigned to safeguard babies and toddlers from accidentally being strangled to death by the looped cords. In the online edition of the British ...

Dr Mahesh Masand, consultant paediatrician at Dr Grays Hospital in Elgin, Scotland, recounts the day when a 22-month-old girl was rushed to A&E after her mother found the toddler hanging from the ...

Hearing my four-year-old son’s cry from the next room, I assumed he had fallen out with his playmate over a toy, or their favourite spot on the sofa, where I’d last seen them sitting together, ...

A three-year-old boy in Fayetteville is dead after accidentally hanging himself on a cord used for mini-blinds. Tre Tolbert was playing in his living room Tuesday night when he got caught in the cord ...

A 3-year-old accidentally hanged himself by getting tangled in a Venetian blind cord in his bedroom while playing with his younger brothers, police said. Christopher Joseph Gardner died Thursday at a ...

Coroner issues fresh warning to parents about dangers of dangling cords following death of Tianna Mooney A CORONER has warned parents about the dangers posed by window blind cords after the “utter ...