PROVIDENCE, R.I. (WPRI) — A number of products were recalled this week for various safety hazards. Lenovo is recalling 500,000 computer power cords because they can overheat and melt, leading to fire ...

New research serves as a warning about a common household item that can pose a serious safety threat to young children: window blind cords. A new study published in the journal Pediatrics found that ...

A team of researchers at the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital has published a new report in Pediatrics that tallies the number of deaths and injuries due to ...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Shopping for her nursery, Kelly Horvath bought a new window shade because its label advertised its child safety features. She later found her 16-month-old son dead in his crib, the ...

This article is part of “Death by Delay,” a series on how consumer product hazards have cost lives. Window blinds, curtains and shades can injure or kill young children if the dangling cords are ...

Most people don't look at the cords hanging from their window covers and see danger. But the Walla family does. That's because 15 years ago, a then-3-year-old Gavin Walla became entangled in the cords ...

Pull cords on window blinds and draperies have been a known strangulation hazard for children. Indeed, a 6-year-old developmentally disabled girl in Costa Mesa recently died after accidentally ...