It’s playground safety week, sponsored by the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. The CPSC is out to prevent falls, entrapments, cuts, and other playground injuries that are all too common at schools and parks.

Marvin Gaye, singer, was murdered by his father on his birthday.

Celebrities live pretty extraordinary lives, and many of them also experience some pretty extraordinary deaths.

Eight top clothing lines have agreed to pay a combined $320,000 for failing to report the hazards of its drawstring sweatshirts and jackets to the Consumer Product Safety Commission in a timely manner.

According to a new British study, what you eat (and how much you eat) may determine whether you have a baby boy or a baby girl.

Warning to consumers: The FDA advises everyone to avoid purchasing and stop using “Blue Steel” and “Hero” products, marketed as dietary supplements.

According to the FDA, Herbal Science International, Inc. voluntarily recalled 12 dietary supplements that contain ephedra, aristolochic acid, and/or human placenta.

One Vietnamese teenager suffers from a facial tumor so large that she can barely eat, can’t attend school, and now doctors fear she won’t be able to breathe. The 15-year-old girl is in Florida awaiting a surgery that was arranged by the International Kids Fund.

Adam “Pacman” Jones faces several pending trials now that the three people injured in a shooting rampage have filed civil suits against him.
Although Jones has denied playing any role in the shooting that left the two Las Vegas strip club employees and one club patron severely injured-one paralyzed-he paid upwards of $15,000 to the man who did commit the crime.

Healthcare professionals were recently warned by Exubera manufacturers, Pfizer, that the insulin might be linked to lung cancer. The short-acting insulin is breathed through the mouth as an inhaler, and it helps control high blood sugar in diabetic patients.