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When the American Academy of Pediatrics recently recommended that children ride in rear-facing car seats until at least age 2 — up from the previous minimum age of 1 — Internet news sites lit up with outrage. Many parents were hardly eager to embrace the latest medical advice about how to best protect toddlers from serious head, neck and spinal injuries.

Some cost-conscious consumers are turning to do-it-yourself Botox kits, but doctors warn these at-home treatments could have deadly consequences.

Since the beginning of the year, 18 people have died at Yosemite National Park, an unfortunate increase from recent years and a cause for alarm for the park’s rangers.

A U.S. Food and Drug Administration advisory panel began a two-day meeting Tuesday on silicone breast implants to consider ways to improve the effectiveness of post-approval safety studies.

I've covered hurricanes from El Salvador to Montauk, on the tip of Long Island, for three decades. There's no question hurricanes are a hassle. What you don't want to learn is that they can also be deadly.

Don't play the hero. That's the message from FEMA as officials warn that Hurricane Irene could prompt widespread evacuation orders up and down the East Coast. Residents have been urged to heed those orders, for their safety and the safety of emergency workers.

Kids may be safest in cars when grandma or grandpa are driving instead of mom or dad, according to study results that even made the researchers do a double-take....

For nearly four years, no one knew what caused the rare bacterial infection that left Myles Massey brain-damaged while his twin brother was fine. Now, a lawsuit charges that the infection came from tainted alcohol prep pads made by a shuttered Wisconsin firm.

Pilot programs to reduce distracted driving show success in Syracuse, N.Y., and Hartford, Conn.

Inspectors need authority to randomly pull over tour buses on the highway if they are to catch rogue carriers using a variety of schemes to evade even the most basic safety rules, federal and state officials said Monday.