Drowning is the leading cause of death among children ages 1 to 4 in the United States. Here’s what parents and caregivers should know this summer.

Florida is hurtling toward its deadliest year on record for child drownings. Why — in a state hyper-aware of water safety — do young lives continue to slip away?

Bloomberg Philanthropies has already invested a total of $104 million over the years via its Initiative to Prevent Drowning to support such drowning prevention interventions in Bangladesh, Ghana, ...

Half of the children who drown do so within 25 yards of their parents. Drowning is often silent, quick, and far less dramatic than most people expect. Emergency physician Scott Youngquist, MD, ...

Dry drowning is a non-medical term describing breathing impairment that develops over minutes or hours after water submersion, which could progress to respiratory failure. While it's possible for ...