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 ...

(CBS NEWS) — 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 ...

Items sold on Amazon and Target pose serious injury or death risks, including bed rails linked to 260 fatalities.

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 ...

Federal regulators have recalled more than 26,000 portable bed rails sold online at Amazon and Walmart because of serious ...

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is calling on consumers to "immediately stop using" certain Mobility Transfer Systems adult portable bed rails have been linked to three elderly ...

Guard rails to keep the elderly from falling out of bed can instead become cages that may kill or injure, according to a report. From 1985 to 2013, the Food and Drug Administration received 901 ...

A former nursing home employee pushed and choked an 87-year-old patient with dementia, causing the elderly man to fall and hit his head on the bed rails. On Jan. 15, 2026, Hennayaka Mudiyenselage ...

An elderly cancer patient died when she fell out of a hospital bed after staff failed to raise one of her bedside safety rails, an inquest heard. Rita Phelps, 74, suffered a fatal head injury when she ...