Undergraduate students at the University of Florida (UF) developed a new wireless technology-based sensor that could detect the up-and-down movements of a baby's chest while sleeping. If the infant stops breathing or gulps for air, the device emits a warning signal, notifying the parents that something is wrong.... |
3 December 2008
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The “Back to Sleep” campaign, which the United States adopted in 1994, was one of the main causes for the reduction of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) incidence country-wide. However, to its praise, the state of California registered a drop in SIDS cases even before the campaign was launched. The numb... |
22 November 2008
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The Sudden Infant Death Syndrome is still one of America's most worrying problems today. The infant mortality rate, although decreasing by almost 50 percent since the 1990s, is still high, and SIDS occurs frequently. Parents and doctors are desperately trying to determine what exactly causes the syndrome, but so... |
7 October 2008
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