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• Medline Portable Bed Rail Recall Issued Over Entrapment, Asphyxiation Risks After Two Deaths

  May 31, 2024

  Martha Garcia

  About 1.5 million MedLine Bed Assist portable bed rails are being recalled due to entrapment and suffocation risks following two elderly deaths.

• Senators Introduce New Law to Outlaw Water Beads After Child Deaths

  May 10, 2024

  Martha Garcia

  Following thousands of reported injuries and deaths over the past decade, a bipartisan group of senators has introduced new legislation that would ban water bead toys, to protect young children from choking and asphyxiation.

• Philips Recalls Repaired Trilogy and Garbin Plus Ventilators Over Problems with Replacement Sound Abatement Foam

  February 17, 2023

  Irvin Jackson

  The FDA says nearly 14,000 recalled Trilogy and Garbin Plus ventilators have sound abatement foam problems which could put patients at risk of serious injury or death.