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[jlormberget]

I don't know if you all saw this story today, but it looks like good news in SIDS research:

Study links SIDS with brain stem defects

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[grassyslough]

I almost posted that myself. I heard something about it on the news last night, but I was in the other room so didn't really get it. Then this morning I stumbled across a news article that had run in a New Zealand paper. The Yahoo news story says more than 2,000 infants die from SIDS each year in the U.S., with similar rates in other countries, although definitions vary in other places so comparisons aren't exact. I was confused a bit since the NZ article said 50 babies died from "cot death" in NZ last year and about 300 in Britain. But maybe what's meant by "rates" is the percentage of babies born in each country who die of SIDS.

[grassyslough]

I interpreted as a % since more people live in the US than New Zealand or Britain it would stand to reason that they wouldn't have those numbers.

This is pretty amazing news regardless.

[jlormberget]

Oops, sorry that was me. I thought I had logged in.

[snowzilla]

Wow, that is pretty amazing. Thanks for posting that - I'll be following it to see if the story develops down the road.