Tag: child safety
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Sponsors and advocates celebrate at ceremonial signing of “Momnibus” bill
By Melissa Patrick Kentucky Health News Sponsors and advocates of a bipartisan bill aimed at improving Kentucky’s dismal maternal mortality rate — dubbed the “Momnibus” bill — celebrated its passage...
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Nationally, poisonings of youth from opioids rose 165% from 1997 to 2012, 205% among those aged 1 to 4
More than 13,000 Americans age 19 and under were hospitalized for opioid poisonings from 1997 to 2012, says a study at the Yale School of Medicine, published in JAMA Pediatrics. The...