A total of nineteen cars and eight sport utility vehicles have earned the Insurance Institute for Highway Safety’s Top Safety Pick award for 2010.
This award recognizes vehicles that do the best job of keeping passengers safe in front, side, rear, and rollover crashes based on good ratings in the institute’s tests.
The 27 winners, by category, [...]

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Attention parents!
The Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) has announced the recall of the Simplicity drop-side crib.  About one millions units are affected.  So far, three children have died of suffocation.
The deaths occurred because the crib’s plastic hardware can wear down and deform causing the drop side to detach from the crib.  When the drop [...]

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What’s the next warning label what we’re likely to see?
Warning: Don’t use Twitter in the bathtub.
A tragic story this afternoon as a teenage girl was electrocuted after dropping her laptop computer into the bathtub as she twittered.
Police say they believe that Maria Barbu, 17, tried to plug in her laptop while her hands were wet [...]

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has issued a Zicam recall based on the fact that certain Zicam cold and allergy products have a harmful side effect. Apparently, the product has caused a permanent loss of smell in over one hundred people.
The FDA has received more than 130 reports of people losing their sense [...]

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With three kids myself, I’m always looking for new, fun, and safe things for them to try on the computer.  With KidZui, the internet is now a place for kids.
KidZui 4 is the newest web browser for kids.
Available for Windows, Mac and as a Firefox add-on, KidZui allows for easy navigation through categories and extra-big [...]

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If you’ve got little ones, like I do, you’ll want to pay attention.  The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission announced an Evenflo High Chair Recall today.
Parents can visit the Amazon High Chair Store.
The Evenflo Co. issued a voluntary recall of 643,000 Envision high chairs and has also expanded an earlier recall of 90,000 Majestic model [...]

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