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Search results for "Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS)" ...
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Cradle of Secrets
The cause of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, which claims the lives of about 100 babies per year in North Carolina, is unknown. Doctors consider it unpreventable and completely natural. However, the investigation finds that about two-thirds of SIDS babies were sleeping in risky situations that may have caused suffocation.
Tags: SIDS; Sudden Infant Death Syndrome; suffocation; infant death; baby
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Case Closed: Death in Day Care
Three-part series on day care by the News & Observer found that "in the past four years, 33 North Carolina children have died in day-care facilities, an average of one death every six weeks. A review of those deaths found that, in some cases, state child-care regulators failed to act despite red flags indicating a day care was unsafe." For this series, the News & Observer looked into deaths that occurred in day care facilities, and discovered some which should have been prevented. The series also deals with unlicensed day care facilities operating across the state, "with little fear of being caught or punished." Additionally, the series looks at the occurences of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS), the most common cause of death in day care, and what North Carolina does (or does not) do to reduce the risk of SIDS. For example, despite experts' assertions that "placing babies on their backs can lower the risk," North Carolina day care facilities do not require such steps to be taken.
Tags: day care; child care; health; SIDS; sudden infant death syndrome; negligence; children; infant; baby
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Justice for Justin
In a four-part series, WKRC investigates the suspicious deaths of children at an in-home day care in suburban Cincinnati. Police responded to two separate incidents of SIDS (Sudden Infant Death Syndrome) at the day care, and revived another child at the same residence. While the police were suspicious of the deaths, they had nothing to continue their investigation with. The parents of one the children that died came forward and won a wrongful death suit against the day care center, WKRC's investigation found that Ohio has some of most lax licensing, inspection, and enforcement laws in the country when it comes to day cares.
Tags: TAPE; TRANSCRIPT; day care; children; SIDS
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The Death of Innocents
Three years in the making, this book investigates the deaths of five children. Initially, the deaths were said to have been caused by Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, but after some investigation by a District Attorney in Syracuse, N.Y., the it was discovered that the children had been murdered.
Tags: SIDS BOOK
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No title (id: 13893)
For more than two decades, Waneta Hoyt's five children were presumed victims of sudden infant death syndrome. Their case was used in research to prove that SIDS runs in families. In 1994, a forensic pathologist insisted that the study hid homocides.. An investigation led to a confession of murder from Hoyt. "Goodbye, My Little Ones" chronicles the saga. (March 1996)
Tags: Lighty CAR Goodbye; my little ones Contest entry Medicine Munchausen syndrome by proxy Health 384 pgs. BOOK
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Kids Dying Under State Watch
A record 112 children died in 1995 under the care of Washington state social workers or shortly after the state withdrew services. Nearly all the child deaths were ruled accidental or natural, but a Seattle Times study found at least one third of them might have been preventable. The children who needed the most protection from parental abuse and neglect -- those on the active caseload of Child Protective Service -- were more than four times as likely to die as the state's other children. Infants under CPS care were eight times as likely to die of "SIDS" compared with other infants.
Tags: CAR; Kids dying under state watch; Contest entry; Child abuse; Sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS); Child protective services
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False Alarm: The Failed Promise of Apnea Monitors
The Syracuse Newspapers chronicle the rise and fall of a medical revolution. In 1972 Dr. Alfred Steinschneider, a pediatric researcher at Upstate Medical Center in Syracuse, N.Y., suggested he could predict which babies might die of sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS. Later investigation found Steinschneider's research was invalid and that his theory that SIDS runs in families deflected investigations of cases of suspected serial infanticide. (May 5, 6, and 7, 1996)
Tags: Lighty CAR False alarm: the failed promise of apnea monitors Contest entry Medical research 31 pgs.
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No title (id: 7587)
WMAQ-TV (Chicago) examines the Cook County Medical Examiner's failure to determine that a woman had murdered her children one by one until all six children were dead; coroner had determined that the first four deaths had been caused by "sudden infant death syndrome," but after the sixth death the cause was changed to suffocation, June 29, 1990.
Tags: TAPE; IL Marin Moseley Frame SIDS
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No title (id: 6893)
Press and Sun-Bulletin (Binghamton, N.Y.) finds that babies born to mothers in inner-city Binghamton are nearly twice as likely to die in their first year of life as babies elsewhere in Broome County, and that inner-city babies of normal birth weight are nearly three times more likely to die than babies elsewhere; sidebars on how Sudden Infant Death Syndrome relates to income, the need for better prenatal care, and the connection between smoking and birth weight, Aug. 7, 1988.
Tags: NY SIDS infant mortality
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No title (id: 2848)
The Sciences looks at crib death; reviews recent research and new clues to the cause of sudden infant death syndrome, July/August 1988.
Tags: Buck infant SIDS