Adult portable bed rails — which are installed on the sides of beds to facilitate mobility and reduce the risk of falling — are advertised as safety devices for elderly people or those with medical ...

A federal safety agency has issued a warning against the use of two different brands of bed rails. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said Gold Kernal LLC, doing business as OasisSpace; and ...

Medical King is recalling about 222,000 adult portable bed rails after one death. The Consumer Product Safety Commission warns the bed rails pose a serious entrapment hazard. When the recalled bed ...

Three models of Medical King's Bed Assist Rails are being recalled due to the risk of entrapment and asphyxia. Aly Lopez was a writer on the sleep and wellness team at CNET. She tested, researched and ...

As U.S. regulators and legislators move to ban potentially deadly infant-sleep products, bed rails and bed handles that have killed hundreds of mostly elderly Americans remain on the market. "There's ...

After 81-year-old Clara Marshall badly bruised herself in a tumble from her bed at a care facility in Vancouver, Wash., the staff urged her husband to buy a metal safety rail to protect her from ...

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 ...

When the nurse entered the room, she was stunned. Before her lay the lifeless body of an elderly patient who had fallen out of bed. The woman’s head was lodged between the mattress and a bed rail, a ...

Adult bed rails have been linked to hundreds of deaths and injuries over the years. The CPSC is starting work on a federal safety standard, nearly... Adult portable bed rails — which are installed on ...