For the past few years, a small team of health scientists at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had been tasked with answering basic statistical questions like: Who is drowning? Where is ...

Why are teens at such high risk for drowning? “There are many reasons why teens can be at risk for drownings,” Heather Trnka, manager of injury prevention at Akron Children’s, tells SheKnows. “But a ...

This week, a 4-year-old boy from Texas died days after swimming. His death was ruled the result of dry drowning. Dry drowning — a rare medical event that accounts for about 1 percent of all drowning ...

The Virginia Department of Health reports an abnormally high number of drowning deaths so far this year, especially among young children. VDH Environmental Health Coordinator Briana Bill said 13 ...

A child’s lifeless body pulled from a pool as onlookers watch helplessly; paramedics attempting to revive the unconscious boy; friends and family watching in horror as the boy is taken away by ...

A few years in, a CDC drowning prevention program was ready to share its findings on how to mitigate the leading cause of death among young... Drowning prevention program comes to a halt at the CDC ...