ScholarPeer’s latest research news and reporting from Nationwide Children’s Hospital. Nationwide Children’s Hospital is a pediatric medical center and research institution whose Abigail Wexner Research Institute conducts basic, translational, and clinical research focused on improving children’s health. Its scientists investigate areas including genomics, gene and cell therapies, cancer, infectious disease, neuroscience, behavioral health, population health, and precision therapeutics, translating laboratory discoveries into new approaches for preventing, diagnosing, and treating childhood disease.
Toddlers accounted for nearly all of a 3,307 percent jump in unintentional child drug ingestions since 2000, poison center data show, most of it driven by marijuana edibles that resemble candy and pack multiple doses into one package.