A person can get trapped between the bed rail and the mattress or in the bed rail itself, posing a risk of death by asphyxiation, the CPSC reported. An 81-year-old man in Pennsylvania died from ...

A portable bed rail sold on Amazon is being recalled due to faulty assembly that poses a risk of entrapment and death when ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Medical supply company Medline Industries is recalling some 1.5 million portable adult bed rails across the U.S. and Canada, following two reports of entrapment deaths associated with ...

Two manufacturers of adult portable bed rails announced separate recalls this week of devices linked to four deaths of elderly Americans. Nearly 105,000 Carex brand rails sold from 2012 to December ...

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission on Thursday issued an urgent warning about portable adult bed rails, saying the devices are behind the suffocation deaths of 18 people since 2021. The ...

In October 2021, an 81-year-old man in a Pennsylvania nursing home became trapped between his mattress and portable bed rails. According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission and Platinum ...

For the first time this semester, the University System of Georgia is requiring campuses statewide to offer bed safety rails for students for free. The danger of lofted beds and bunk beds came to ...

Some mattress sizes are easy to differentiate, like a full versus a queen, but others are downright confusing. For example, what's the difference between a single and a twin mattress? Technically, ...

The Minnesota Department of Health called for health facilities across the state to do safety checks on patient bed rails after finding neglect in the case of a nursing home resident who died at a ...