CHICAGO (Reuters) - Babies who die from sudden infant death syndrome make low amounts of the message-carrying brain chemical serotonin needed to regulate sleep, breathing and heart rate, U.S. researchers said on Tuesday. The finding, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, may help identify babies at risk for SIDS, which each year kills more than 2,300 ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - In a study from England, most babies who died from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) were sleeping with an adult or another child at the time. Many of these "co-sleeping" deaths occurred in a potentially hazardous environment, such as in a bed or a sofa shared with an adult who recently used drugs or alcohol, according ...

More than half of sudden infant deaths reviewed in a study released on Wednesday occurred while the babies shared a bed or sofa with a parent. The incidence of so-called sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS, increased when the adult "co-sleeping" with the infant had recently consumed alcohol or drugs, the study found. SIDS entered the medical vocabulary some 40 ...

More than half of sudden infant deaths reviewed in a study released Wednesday occurred while the babies shared a bed or sofa with a parent. The incidence of so-called sudden infant death syndrome, or SIDS, increased when the adult "co-sleeping" with the infant had recently consumed alcohol or drugs, the study found. SIDS entered the medical vocabulary some 40 years ...