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Infant Mortality Drops 12% In Six Years, USA

After a 5-year plateau, the infant mortality rate in the USA dropped 12% from 2005 to the end of 2011, says a new "NCHS Data Brief" issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Redu...

Infant Mortality Rates Decline, USA

After a 5-year plateau, the infant mortality rate in the USA dropped 12% from 2005 to the end of 2011, says a new "NCHS Data Brief" issued by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Redu...

Lower Infant Death Rate for Later Gestation Weeks

Analysis of millions of California term births yields stratification of infant death by gestational age. Medscape Medical News

SIDS Center of New Jersey launches new initiative to reduce risk of sudden infant death syndrome

October is national SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) Awareness Month and recognized by the State of New Jersey through a proclamation signed by Governor Chris Christie, calling attention to one of...

Tummy time exercises important for infant's physical and mental development

Thanks to the American Academy of Pediatrics, most parents know the safest way for an infant to sleep is on their back. The campaign has reduced the number of children who have died from Sudden Infant...

AMP appeals breast cancer gene patent case to US Supreme Court

(Association for Molecular Pathology) The Association for Molecular Pathology has petitioned the United States Supreme Court to review the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit's recent ruling in A...

CMS to price molecular pathology tests as lab services

CMS is revising the way it reimburses molecular pathology tests, but it remains unclear whether suppliers will get more or less money from the agency. Beginning next year, CMS will determine the reimb...

Mother's Drinking Increases Risk of Infant's Death: Study

TUESDAY, Feb. 26 -- Children of women who are diagnosed with an alcohol disorder during pregnancy or within a year after giving birth have a three-fold higher risk of dying from SIDS -- sudden infant...

A commentary on changing infant death rates and a plea to use sudden infant death syndrome as a cause of death.

Progressive primary pulmonary tuberculosis presenting as the sudden unexpected death in infancy: A case report.

The classification of an unexpected infant death as the sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) depends upon a complete autopsy and death scene investigation to exclude known causes of death. Here we repo...

Fetal and maternal factors associated with infant mortality in vervet monkeys.

Abstract Background Causes of infant death remain unknown in significant proportions of human and non-human primate pregnancies. Methods A closed breeding colony with high rates of infant mortality ha...

Genetics of the sudden infant death syndrome.

The sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) is currently defined as "the sudden unexpected death of an infant less than 1 year of age with onset of the fatal episode apparently occurring during sleep, tha...

The effect of sociodemographic factors on infant mortality according to cause of death: a birth cohort in Seoul, Korea, 1999-2003.

OBJECTIVES: The aim of this study was to examine the effect of socioeconomic status and demographic factors on infant mortality, classified by cause of death, in a group of children born in Seoul, Kor...