Research on dummies to follow UScot death study

By Liz Fox, Nursery World, 22 December 2005

The use of dummies for British babies is to be studied by the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths (FSID), following American research that claims dummies can reduce the risk of cot death by 90 per cent. The US research paper, published in the British Medical Journal on 9 December, compared 185 infants who died of sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) with 312 randomly selected healthy babies.

The use of dummies for British babies is to be studied by the Foundation for the Study of Infant Deaths (FSID), following American research that claims dummies can reduce the risk of...

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