About 800 people have drowned in the waters off Hawaii’s roughly 1,000-mile coastline in the last decade, with an increasing ...

PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — As trips to pools and lakes ramp up with the warmer weather, the Department of Children and Family Services reminds people how to prevent childhood drowning. Through all of 2024, ...

Learn how to rapidly identify, manage, and prevent drowning injuries using updated evidence-based approaches from prehospital care to ICU management.

For the past few years, a small team of health scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had been tasked with answering basic statistical questions like: Who is drowning? Where is ...

MONTH MORE THAN 12,000 CALIFORNIANS DIED FROM DROWNING BETWEEN 1991 AND 2020, AND A LOT OF PEOPLE WILL BE OUTDOORS TODAY FOR THE HOLIDAYS. SO OFFICIALS SAY NOW IS THE TIME OF YEAR FOR PARENTS TO ...

You turn your back for just a moment. Maybe you’re grabbing a towel, checking your email, or chasing a toddler who’s just taken off with your phone. And in that blink—before you even realize it—your ...

Water safety officials usually spend Memorial Day weekend warning families that more toddlers die from drowning than any other cause. This year, fewer people will know about the risk. In April, ...

Before they poured acid into the pool, before they drained it to keep Black children from swimming, there was a moment of stillness. Of promise. Of a child standing at the edge, hoping to feel joy.

A few years in, a CDC drowning prevention program was ready to share its findings on how to mitigate the leading cause of death among young... Drowning prevention program comes to a halt at the CDC ...