emergency room

    By Mitch Lipka

    | 3:15PM 9/23/2010
    Furniture, TVs and appliances tipping over led to the deaths of nearly 200 young children over an eight year period -- about one every two weeks -- prompting the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission to issue an alert to parents to check for potential hazards in their homes.

    By Tom Barlow

    | 2:00PM 2/28/2010
    Reader's Digest is known for its good, albeit rather obvious advice. Therefore, I'm guessing the problem here is in the editing process, rather than the writers. Who has time to read 50 suggestions while having a heart attack?

    By Eric Wahlgren

    | 12:00PM 11/29/2009
    You accidentally filet your finger with your sharpest kitchen knife. Your daughter breaks her arm at a gymnastics meet. Or the fool who's texting while driving totals your car -- with you in it. At some point in life, chances are you'll be taking a trip to the emergency room. Some 120 million...

    By Tracy Coenen

    | 11:30AM 1/31/2008
    It never fails... the weekend comes and the doctor's office is closed, and you get stricken with the plague. I'm not talking about a little sneezing and coughing and blowing your nose. (Shut up. Quit being such a baby. Go to bed.) I mean the kind of sick where you feel like you're on your deathbed,...