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A campaign to change babies’ sleeping positions and reduce cot death rates in the 1990s failed to get the message across to deprived communities, a study has suggested. It took up to 15 years for the death rate to reach “a low and stable rate” in those areas, researchers found. The University of Cambridge study [...]

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The number of babies dying from cot death could increase as austerity cuts force vulnerable families into unsuitable living conditions, the head of an infant-death charity has warned. The Government’s healthcare reforms could also put babies’ lives at risk and vital services could be lost as the NHS is forced to restructure and make efficiency [...]

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Luca Giovannini, aged five, passed away just 24 hours after complaining he felt sick. His parents Vickie and Renzo then made the decision to donate some of their son’s organs for transplant. They were given to a two-year-old girl, a two-year-old boy, a 35-year-old mother-of-two and a 34-year-old man. We send our son’s organs with [...]

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Parents are being urged not to use safety bumpers in their babies’ beds because they increase the risk of cot death.

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Avoids jail after judge hears she lost her own baby to cot death

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