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 ...

(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 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 ...

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, ...

Aug 14 -- Six-year-old Christina Reid of Newnan, Ga., is the latest victim of a potential danger in millions of American homes: window blinds. The little girl died of accidental strangulation after ...

A TODDLER was just centimetres from safety when he got his neck tangled in a metal Venetian blind cord. An inquest yesterday heard how little Aaron Malley accidentally asphyxiated himself after he ...

JUST days after burying their son, a brave couple is pleading for people to safeguard their homes against killer blind cords. Clinton and Laura Mackay want it mandatory that all houses fitted with ...

A TODDLER has died in hospital after she was found choking on a blind cord at her Quakers Hill home. Paramedics were called to treat the 15-month-old girl at a townhouse on Hillcrest Rd about 6.30pm.