Articles tagged with 'Choking' | Checkup Newsroom

Last year, more than 470 children visited the Cook Children’s Emergency Department after swallowing “a foreign body.” Corwin Warmink, M.D., medical director of Emergency Services at Cook Children’s, said not a day goes by that a child doesn’t visi...

Recently, we wrote about what you should consider before you buy your child a fidget spinner. But what we didn’t address were the safety issues of the fidget devices that it seems every child in America owns, whether they have ADHD or not. On M...

Why won’t amber necklaces go away? That’s the question many of our staff at Cook Children’s wonders about the beaded necklaces promoted as a natural alternative to ease teething pain, including Corwin Warmink, M.D., medical director of the Emergen...