A coroner has called for a public awareness campaign about the requirement for portable pools to be fenced following the drowning of an 18-month-old boy in Hobart. Kobie Ryder Blackaby died in ...

With the hot summer months arriving, a new study warns that caregivers need to be thinking about the drowning hazards posed by portable pools, including inflatable and wading pools. "Parents need to ...

Portable pools pose a real danger to unsupervised kids. Every five days, a child drowns in one of these soft-walled pools, according to recently published research. Nearly 95% of these children were ...

THE Office of Fair Trading (OFT) is warning parents about the dangers that portable and inflatable pools pose to young children. Fair Trading executive director Brian Bauer said portable and ...

Portable swimming pools, including the increasingly popular, inflatable models, pose serious risks to young children, experts warn. In a new study, investigators at Nationwide Children's Hospital in ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - In-ground pools are often seen as the biggest drowning danger for children, but a U.S. study warned that portable pools, including inflatable and wading pools, are just as ...

Colorful kiddie pools look innocuous enough, but a new study finds that a child drowns in an inflatable, portable pool every five days in warm-weather months. “Because portable pools are generally ...