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teasel
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posted May 01, 2025 04:57 PM
  
NIH cancels participation in Safe to Sleep campaign that decreased infant deaths
Nonprofits scramble to continue program despite devastating loss of federal support http://www.statnews.com/2025/04/30/nih-ends-participation-in-safe-to-sleep-campaign-to-prevent-infant-deaths/
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has cancelled federal participation in Safe to Sleep, a 30-year campaign to prevent babies from dying in their sleep, STAT and the Medill News Service have learned.
The elimination of the National Institutes of Health’s role in the program, which helped slash infant deaths in the 2000s, comes at a time when sleep-related deaths among infants have increased. Sudden infant death rates were up nearly 12% between 2020 and 2022, according to the most recent data in a study published in JAMA Pediatrics. “The elimination of this department is absolutely devastating as the rates of sudden unexpected infant death have begun to climb once again,” Alison Jacobson, the CEO of First Candle, a nonprofit organization that worked with the federal government on Safe to Sleep, said in an email. IP: Logged |
teasel
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posted May 01, 2025 05:01 PM
"Pro-lifers" strike again. IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted May 01, 2025 05:06 PM
We all know the real reason infants are dying.IP: Logged |
teasel
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posted May 01, 2025 05:20 PM
"Think of the babies! Save the babies!"Until they're born. It's only about controlling women. IP: Logged |
Randall
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posted May 01, 2025 05:27 PM
RFK is going to do the same thing with far less money by discovering what is really causing SIDS.IP: Logged |
Belage2
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posted May 01, 2025 06:34 PM
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Originally posted by teasel:
NIH cancels participation in Safe to Sleep campaign that decreased infant deaths
Nonprofits scramble to continue program despite devastating loss of federal support http://www.statnews.com/2025/04/30/nih-ends-participation-in-safe -to-sleep-campaign-to-prevent-infant-deaths/
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration has cancelled federal participation in Safe to Sleep, a 30-year campaign to prevent babies from dying in their sleep, STAT and the Medill News Service have learned.
The elimination of the National Institutes of Health’s role in the program, which helped slash infant deaths in the 2000s, comes at a time when sleep-related deaths among infants have increased. Sudden infant death rates were up nearly 12% between 2020 and 2022, according to the most recent data in a study published in JAMA Pediatrics. “The elimination of this department is absolutely devastating as the rates of sudden unexpected infant death have begun to climb once again,” Alison Jacobson, the CEO of First Candle, a nonprofit organization that worked with the federal government on Safe to Sleep, said in an email.
I don't know much about this issue, but if sleep-related deaths among infants have increased in spite of the program, clearly the program is not doing its job. Better to find out what is really causing SIDS... IP: Logged |
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