For more than 50 years, March has been recognized as Poison Prevention Month. Mr. Yuk stickers have been going home with students all over America to raise awareness of poisonings and remind parents ...

A Pittsburgh pediatrician wanted to create something that would help children learn not to ingest poisons. His creation is known as “Mr. Yuk.” A report by KDKA2 News, said that in 1971 Dr. Richard ...

You never know where you’ll find some random baseball factoid or reference. Today I was reading this story about those old Mr. Yuk poison stickers over at Mental Floss and learned that Mr. Yuk’s ...

If you come from a certain part of the United States—and happened to grow up in the 1970s and '80s—you know Mr. Yuk's day-glo green face. For 43 years, this sticker has served as a defense against ...

PITTSBURGH (AP) — Dr. Richard W. Moriarty, a retired pediatrician from Pittsburgh who helped create the bright green Mr. Yuk sticker that warns kids away from poisonous substances, has died. He was 83 ...

(WHTM) — He’s still with us, and still saving lives. Mr. Yuk, the grimacing green face warning kids away from poisonous materials, turns fifty this year. Back in 1971, Dr. Richard Moriarty, the ...