The North Dakota Department of Health reminds parents and caregivers to use the national poison control phone number for emergency poison consultation. The phone number - (800) 222-1222 - was ...

Every 30 seconds in the United States, a child swallows something they should not. Doctors at WakeMed's Children's Emergency Department see at least one or two accidental ingestions a day. So what do ...

The number of calls concerning glow products jumps from an average of 20 on a typical day to approximately 260 on Halloween.

Each Halloween, poison centers in the United States see a spike in the number of calls about glow products such as glow sticks and glow jewelry, according to data from America's Poison Centers, which ...

The yellow pages of phone books can be valuable resources for thousands of numbers, but when it comes to finding the number for a poison emergency, some yellow pages are leading people astray. Carol ...

A study found a nearly 50 percent increase in such calls between 2005 and 2012. — -- A new study found calls to poison control centers in the U.S. due to exposures to dietary supplements rose by ...

Over 50% of calls made to the Utah Poison Control Center each year involve children under 5 years old. Still, poisonings can happen to anyone at any age. Last year, the UPCC managed over 40,000 ...