This article is part of “Death by Delay,” a series on how consumer product hazards have cost lives. Window blinds, curtains and shades can injure or kill young children if the dangling cords are ...

Aside from its clean good looks as a window treatment, there are two good reasons why a cordless window blind is better than a corded one: 1) If you have small children, the dangling cord can be a ...

Blinds are one of those around-the-house staples we tend to take for granted but, if they weren’t there, it wouldn't take long before realizing how inconvenient they are to live without. After moving ...

New research serves as a warning about a common household item that can pose a serious safety threat to young children: window blind cords. A new study published in the journal Pediatrics found that ...

Most people don't look at the cords hanging from their window covers and see danger. But the Walla family does. That's because 15 years ago, a then-3-year-old Gavin Walla became entangled in the cords ...

Little Nyah Mar from Mesa should be getting ready to finish her third-grade year. Another Mesa toddler, Brooke Baurlein, would've turned 17 years old this summer. Both girls died, 6 years apart to the ...

These online retailers make buying custom blinds and shades easy ...

Andrea Sutton, a mom in Firestone, Colo., was trying to put her 3-year-old son Daniel down for a nap, but he wasn't having it. It was January, too cold for him to burn off much energy outside, and he ...

They don’t look dangerous – not like a knife or open flame – but the cords on window blinds and shades can be just as deadly when they get wrapped around a child’s neck. Almost every month, on average ...