Saving Babies: Exposing Sudden Infant Death in America
- NEW! Medical: Infant sleep positions prompt new guidelines
- NEW! Babies die in unsafe sleep spots, despite cribs, study finds
- NEW! Conference probes infant sudden deaths like SIDS
- NEW! Congress urged to pass SIDS, stillbirth measures
- NEW! Conference probes infant sudden deaths like SIDS
- NEW! Study shows brainstem defect in SIDS babies
- NEW! SIDS report: Many caregivers don't put infants to sleep on back
- In Washington, struggling to get it right
- Mish-mash legislation complicates sudden infant death
- Obama proposes legislation to better track SIDS, stillbirths
- Conference questions safety of sleeping with baby
- A summit to improve investigation of sudden infant death
- Experts, lawmakers call for standardized infant death investigations
- Sharing bed with baby can be dangerous, controversial
- Crib programs aim to keep infants safe
- Preventable infant deaths
- Standardized investigations lacking in infant deaths
- Guidelines for safe sleeping
- Grant aims to keep babies safe at sleep
- In Idaho, failed effort to create state team to review child deaths
- One-fifth of Americans have been touched by SIDS
- The case of New York
- infant's death leaves family 'lost'
- The trail of an infant's death begins with questions
- Lack of answers adds to parents' pain
- Record number of U.S. babies died of 'unknown causes'
- Silent Cradles: Tales of infanticide
- A brief history of child death review
- Determined police work needed to nail infant homcides
- Infant homicides lost in sloppy investigations
- Getting answers to infant deaths
- Opinion: Getting away with murder
- Opinion: National standards will save young lives
A review of the records of 40,000 infant deaths casts deep doubt on claims of medical authorities that cases of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome have fallen by more than half since the 1990s. A Scripps Howard News Service Investigation of infant deaths going back to 1992 revealed that the quality of infant death investigations, the level of training for coroners, and the amount of oversight and review vary enormously across the country. In many cases, professional bias -- both for and against a diagnosis of SIDS -- trumps medical evidence. The sloppy investigations and muddled records come with a very high price: the deaths of more babies who might have been saved through medical research.
