Most repeat cot deaths 'natural'
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An overwhelming majority of cases where a family suffers multiple cot deaths is down to natural causes, a study says.
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Babies born by caesarean are nearly three times more likely to die in the first month than those born naturally, research shows.
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Mothers and their babies can be harmed by aerosols and air fresheners, says a study by researchers at Bristol University in the UK.
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About one million cribs designed by Simplicity for Children have been recalled after the suffocation deaths of at least two children, the government said today.
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The discovery of a novel virus in two Wisconsin babies thought to be victims of sudden infant death syndrome has triggered questions about how often such mysterious tragedies might be due to germs.
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More than 10 million children under 5   years old die each year but two-thirds of those deaths could be   prevented with effective, cheap treatments that are already   available, health experts said on Monday.
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By La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Feb. 2--Imagine living the same day again and again and again.   Fortunately this scenario doesn't happen in real life.
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US baby furniture supplier Simplicity recalls one million Chinese-made cots linked to two infant deaths.
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Almost 3,000 people have died in the past three years after suffering serious side-effects or allergies to their medicines, official figures show.
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Between 500 and 600 people die every year in state custody in England and Wales, a report will say.
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The risk of death to newborns delivered by voluntary Caesarean section is much higher than previously believed, a new study indicates.
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(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Repeated ultrasound exposures during pregnancy may not cause long-term harm to infants, according to a new study.
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WASHINGTON -- About 1 million Simplicity and Graco cribs are being recalled after three children became entrapped in their cribs and died of suffocation, the Consumer Product Safety Commission said Friday.
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Giving birth in poor countries proves fatal for more than half a million women every year, or one every minute, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Wednesday, warning preventable deaths have reached epidemic levels.
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By the time she was 8 years old, J.B. had been hospitalized 200 times  and had undergone more than 40 operations, including the removal of most of her  intestines. K.C., a 2-year-old boy, was hospitalized more than 20 times due to  complications from asthma, severe pneumonia, mysterious infections, and sudden  fevers. His doctors were baffled and unable to determine the cause of these  illnesses. In a family with five children, one after another died of sudden infant  death syndrome (SIDS).
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US health officials from the CDC say that obesity is not killing as many people as first thought. They say the CDC will ask JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association) to alter the figures it published in a study published last March.
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The number of fetuses and newborns to die because of a condition some women develop while pregnant has fallen as doctors perfect their timing in inducing labor, a study found.