MONDAY, April 16 (HealthDay News) -- Death rates from accidental
injuries among children and teens fell by nearly 30 percent in
the United States between 2000 and 2009, a new government report
shows. The decrease in injury death rates resulted in more than
11,000 young lives being saved during that time, according to
researchers from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention. Even so, more than 9,000 youngsters under the age of
19 lost their lives due to accidental injuries in 2009, the
Vital Signs report said. "As promising as the results of the CDC
report are, parents and pediatricians need to work to prevent
each and every injury to children," said one expert, Dr. Estevan
Garcia, director of pediatric emergency medicine at Maimonides
Medical Center in New York City. Motor vehicle crashes remain
the most common cause of deaths from accidental injury, the CDC
said. Other leading causes included suffocation, drowning,
poisoning, fires and falls. According to the new report, death
rates from motor ve