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Japan's health ministry says it's continuing its suspension of pediatric vaccines made by Pfizer and Sanofi-Aventis, despite finding no connection between the vaccines and the deaths of four children. Both drugmakers are cooperating with the government and expect to be cleared.

For kids across America the family car is perhaps the most potentially lethal item found at home -- more dangerous than any toy or children's product. Deaths of children from hyperthermia (heat stroke) are soaring. So far this year two dozen children across the country have died after being left...

Roy E. Disney, nephew of Walt Disney and occasional bane of the entertainment conglomerate's chief executives, died Wednesday at age 79 following a year-long battle with stomach cancer.

Workplace deaths are down 10 percent, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics. Unfortunately, the number of suicides jumped 28 percent in 2008, the last year or which data is available. A total of 5,071 fatalities occurred in the workplace in 2008. This is the lowest rate since the BLS...

In the two months since a line of robes were recalled over flammability concerns, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission has learned that six people have been burned to death wearing them. The CPSC said five of the six victims were women -- three in their 80s -- and all were cooking when...

The number of humans bit by sharks declined in 2008 and the leading shark attack researcher blames the recession. George Burgess, director of the International Shark Attack File, says sharks bit 59 people around the world in 2008, down from 71 the year before. Sharks bit fewer people not because...