Holiday safety

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If you’ve ever ordered or received a gift of meat, ice cream or other perishable food from an online company, it may have been shipped with dry ice.

A cool self-portrait can get a lot of likes on social media. Taking one in an uncommon or unusual location, though, has played a part in an increase of serious injuries – and deaths.

Planning a family trip over spring break that involves staying overnight at a hotel? If you’ve got a baby, follow these tips from the American Academy of Pediatrics to keep your young ones safe in hotel rooms.

When you’re baking cookies or making a cake, do you or your kids lick the bowl or spoon? If so, the Food and Drug Administration wants you to know that eating or handling raw dough or batter can lead to illness.

Traveling to visit family, relax on a tropical beach or hit the slopes? If you’ll be packing a suitcase or heavy bags, remember to keep safety in mind.

Eat, drink – and celebrate your guests’ successes – and you may be throwing a party that improves people’s health and well-being.

London — Although spending time on work-related activities while on vacation can help reduce your anxiety levels when returning to the job, it also impairs recovery from work exhaustion, results of a recent study out of England suggest.

Itasca, IL — An estimated 350 people will never make it home during the Christmas holiday weekend, and another 400 over New Year’s weekend, because of fatal – and preventable – traffic crashes, according to the National Safety Council.

As holiday shopping shifts into high gear, the Consumer Product Safety Commission is renewing its call to anyone buying TVs and large furniture: Secure the items to a wall to prevent tip-over injuries and deaths.

Itasca, IL — The National Safety Council estimates more than 500 people may die on U.S. roads over the upcoming Thanksgiving Day weekend – the highest projection of roadway deaths for the holiday period since 2007.