Two manufacturers of adult portable bed rails announced separate recalls this week of devices linked to four deaths of elderly Americans. Nearly 105,000 Carex brand rails sold from 2012 to December ...

(CBS NEWS) — As U.S. regulators and legislators move to ban potentially deadly infant-sleep products, bed rails and bed handles that have killed hundreds of mostly elderly Americans remain on the ...

Around the world, patients acquire new infections simply from spending time in a hospital. One way to fight back: replacing hospital bed rails... Checking into a hospital can boost your chances of ...

December’s third recall of adult bed rails, Compass Health Brands pulling about 104,900 Carex bed rails last week, was preceded by three deaths of people in their 80s who used the bed rails. “When ...

Virus DNA left on a hospital bed rail was found in nearly half of all sites sampled across a ward within 10 hours and persisted for at least five days, according to a new study by UCL and Great Ormond ...

Guard rails to keep the elderly from falling out of bed can instead become cages that may kill or injure, according to a report. From 1985 to 2013, the Food and Drug Administration received 901 ...

PITTSBURGH, Oct. 20, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- "As a registered nurse, I thought there could be a better way to cover hospital bed rails," said an inventor, from Middleburg, Fla., "so I invented the BED ...

About 222,000 adult bed assistance rails are under recall due to entrapment and asphyxia hazards, following one death in a residential care facility.According to a Thursday recall notice published by ...

Virus DNA left on a hospital bed rail was found in nearly half of all sites sampled across a ward within 10 hours and persisted for at least five days, according to a new study in the United Kingdom.