Sudden Infant Death Syndrome

The saddest possible tragedies that new parents can go through is the sudden death of their child. This study on sudden infant death syndrome has found strong evidence that this is caused by abnormalities on the brain stem. One current link is to SIDS is babies that sleep on their stomachs. When autopsied, the SIDS babies had about double the number of nerve cells displaying serotonin defects. Hopefully this research will lead to a way to prevent this syndrome.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/HEALTH/10/31/sids.research.ap/index.html