Public Health Campaigns Have Played Role In Decline Of SIDS, Study Finds.

reports that new research published in the journal Pediatrics shows how much research has advanced on sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). The study, led by Richard Goldstein at Boston Children’s Hospital, based “on an analysis of 900,000 infant deaths between 1983 and 2012, suggests that safer sleeping arrangements are not a cure-all.” The study “also suggests that drops in teen pregnancy and smoking—the targets of their own major campaigns in the last 20 years—have also played a role in the dramatic decline of SIDS.” The article mentions the National Institutes of Health’s “Back to Sleep” public-health campaign launched in 1994. http://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2015/12/sudden-infant-death-syndrome-sids-safe-sleep/419490/