The New York State Consumer Protection Board has issued a directive urging consumers to make sure their children and loved ones are protected from extremely painful and possibly fatal scalding burns. Here are some helpful hints:

Preventable hospital mistakes range from U.S. surgeons operating on the wrong person or body part, happening as much as 40 times per week, to a hospital staff member’s failure to properly disinfect a room or wash his hands. The landscape of the modern medical system at first can seem quite picturesque. American hospitals are capable of great feats: saving lives, curing disease, and inventing new procedures.

NYC motorists average an auto accident every 7.3 years, nearly 38 percent higher than the national average.

In a callous political move, Governor Cuomo dealt a significant blow to the rights of brain damaged children to help offset the State’s budget shortfall.

Reform of the medical malpractice laws has been a subject of national debate for many years.

New York passed legislation outlawing texting and e-mailing while driving.

Accidents involving tractor-trailers are a problem across the United States and New York is no exception.

New laws that went into effect in February, New York teen drivers now face two new obstacles on their way to the road.

The physicians, plastic surgeons with the Plastic Surgery Group of Albany, used an unapproved drug called Tri-Toxin, provided by Toxin Research International (TRI), an Arizona company. An investigation of TRI by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) drew attention to the Plastic Surgery Group. Although it is unclear whether any other New York physicians purchased Tri-Toxin from TRI, investigators estimate that nearly 200 physicians from the U.S. purchased the drug.