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Kids in ER for Bottles, Binkies, and Batteries injuries

By admin on May 14, 2012

This research showed that every four hours a child under 3 is treated in a ER for an injury caused by a baby bottle or Sippy cup. Also a different study showed us that 66,000 children have been treated in the ER since 1990 for battery related injuries on them.

Swallowing these small batteries that could be in an electronic toys or remote controls can be dangerous to young children, people at the ER told us that the batteries can get lodged in the esophagus and can lead to severe injuries or even death in less than two hours.

These are the stats on the injuries bottles (65.8%), followed by pacifiers (19.9%) and Sippy cups (14.3%). More than 86% of the injuries were caused by falls while using the products.

“We found that approximately two-thirds of injuries occurred at age 1 year,

 

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MIP-TV: Warner Bros. to Sell ‘ER’ Format Rights

By admin on April 2, 2012

After widely selling the hit U.S. drama ER to over 50 countries, Warner Bros. International Television Production (WBITVP) will be selling format rights to make local versions of the drama to international broadcasters at MIP-TV between April 1 to 4 in Cannes.
“ER is one of the most successful, long-running, highly rated and recognizable television programs ever created and remains in syndication around the world, so we are confident that a wide variety of territories will want to produce their own local version of the show,” noted WBITVP’s Andrew Zein, senior VP, creative format development and sales in a statement.
Launched in 1994 on NBC, ER had a 331-episode run in the U.S. and was sold as a finished program to over 50 countries. In rolling out the series as a format, the studio is hoping to capitalize on the growing interest in remaking popular U.S. series in local languages in many territories.

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Scott Grimes to make guest appearence on NCIS

By admin on January 26, 2011

Grimes played Dr Archie Morris on ER from 2003 to 2009 and now he has signed up to make a guest appearance on NCIS. The former ER star will play Detective Danny Price. The character will feature in a forthcoming flashback episode that focuses on DiNozzo’s past as a cop in Baltimore.

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