New educational program reminds parents to keep medication "Up and Away and Out of Sight"

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Many young children overdosing from medicines at home

"New educational program reminds parents to keep medication "Up and Away and Out of Sight""

Each year, one of every 150 two-year-olds visits an emergency department in the United States for an unintentional medication overdose, most often after finding and eating or drinking medicines without adult supervision. >>Learn more http://www.cdc.gov/media/releases/2011/p1213_Medicine_overdose.html?source=govdelivery

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