Report: Toy-Related Injuries on the Rise

December 2, 2014

This study highlighted serious concerns about scooters, wagons, tricycles, powered play cars, and other ride-on toys, all of which accounted for 35 percent of the reported injuries and 42 percent of hospital admissions. Lead study author Gary Smith, MD, director of the Center for Injury Research and Policy at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio, told Today.com that the most important thing a parent can do to protect a…

Vicki Clinebell majored in journalism at the University of Colorado and headed to an advertising agency before beginning a long career in broadcasting, spanning production and copywriting to Sales and Management for an ABC affiliate station.

Her decision to switch gears to pursue a career in writing fulfilled a lifelong ambition. She started as a blogger for a diverse group of businesses, and now writes for a number of digital publications for companies stationed in her hometown in the Rocky Mountains, and provides advertising copy and media buys for national and regional clients. She finds the research as intersting as the writing—she loves learning about subjects as diverse as construction scaffolding, child safety seats, and the newest trends in beauty and fashion.