12/07/97
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Food Fortification Plan Likely to Reduce Birth Defects Risks
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The U.S. Government's plan to fortify grains with the vitamin folic acid to help prevent a devastating class of birth defects is likely to reduce the risk of these defects substantially, according to an early study by researchers in Ireland and at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD). |
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11/24/97
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Study Confirms Deficit in the Brainstem of SIDS Victims
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Researchers have discovered that some infants who have died of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) show abnormalities in not just one -- but two -- receptors located in an area of the brainstem thought to be involved in the control of breathing, carbon dioxide sensitivity, and blood pressure responses. |
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03/26/97
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Pediatric ACTG Protocol 185
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Enrollment has been stopped in a clinical trial of mother to child HIV transmission, Pediatric ACTG Protocol 185, due to a welcome but unexpectedly low rate of infant infection which made comparison of the standard and experimental treatments impossible. |
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03/01/97
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CPSC Safety Alert - Soft Bedding May Be Hazardous to Babies
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To prevent infant deaths due to soft bedding, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, the American Academy of Pediatrics, and the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development are revising their recommendations on safe bedding practices when putting infants down to sleep. |
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03/01/97
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NICHD Winter Alert to Parents of Newborn Infants
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The cold, fall weather is bringing out the heavy clothes and blankets -- and also a warning to parents of infants from Tipper Gore, national spokesperson for the "Back to Sleep" campaign, a public-private initiative to raise awareness that placing babies on their backs to sleep can reduce the risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). |
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03/01/97
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Reduction in SIDS Deaths Helps Bring Low Infant Mortality
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Saying that more than 50 percent of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) mortality may be preventable if babies are placed to sleep on their sides or backs, HHS Secretary Donna E. Shalala today announced that deaths due to SIDS fell 30 percent between 1992 and 1995. |
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