Injury Prevention

LOS ANGELES (KTLA) -- Doctors are warning parents about a dangerous new trend after six teenagers drank hand sanitizer and ended up in Southern California emergency rooms with alcohol poisoning. Dr. Billy Mallon works in the emergency room at Los Angeles...

Interested in getting a proper feel for barefoot running? The TravelCountry.com Barefoot Fun Run in Sorrento on Nov. 19 offers  an opportunity to learn the basics from a barefoot running expert before you ditch your shoes.  Michael Sandler, best selling...

Forget football -- especially you Eagles fans -- because now is the time spring sports athletes should be getting themselves ready, doctors say. Thousands of children are seen each year for sports injuries due to overuse, trauma injuries and lack of...

Distracted pedestrians: A new study finds that the number of headphone-wearing pedestrians struck and killed by vehicles tripled since 2004....

Gang homicides are less likely to be drug-related than is widely believed and are more likely to be the result of factors such as retaliation to ongoing gang violence, the CDC reported Thursday. The gang violence report is the first such study based on...

California workplace safety officials have fined Coalinga State Hospital more than $20,000, alleging in part that the psychiatric facility – which mainly treats sex offenders deemed too dangerous for community release -- failed to keep staff safe...

Doctors are warning parents about a dangerous new trend after six teenagers drank hand sanitizer and ended up in Los Angeles-area emergency rooms with alcohol poisoning....

Getting fit, leaner and meaner is more than just cosmetic. Cleaning up your act and getting yourself together physically has benefits that follow you around in every aspect of your life. This is especially true in the workplace. Less time sick,...

Sterling Christy's varsity basketball debut ended with eight seconds left in the game. His team, Williamsport High School, was winning when he tangled with a Brunswick player. "He grabbed me by my shoulders and twisted me down," Sterling said. "My leg...

KENOSHA, Wis. – In many ways, Northwestern’s Pat Fitzgerald considers himself an old-school coach. Returning each season to distraction-free Camp Kenosha fits. “It’s football, 24-7,” he said after Camp Kenosha opened with...

They seem to fit together like peanut butter and jelly, yin and yang, flip and flop. But until Peggy Hall came along, nobody had put together yoga and surfing in such a meaningful way. Hall is creating quite an empire for herself by combining two...

- More than 3.5 million children ages 14 and under receive medical treatment for sports injuries each year, according to the National Center for Sports Safety. Injuries directly related to sports and recreational activities are responsible for 21...