In 1999, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission stated that cribs provide the safest sleep environment for infants. Scientific data fails to support that statement and controversy continues in the scientific, medical, and parenting communities. Recent data demonstrate that cribs may represent the most unsafe sleep. This article seeks to inform health care professionals of the issues involv...

OBJECTIVE To determine whether the use of sidecar cribs on the postnatal ward affects breastfeeding duration. DESIGN A randomised non-blinded parallel trial comparing sidecar cribs with standalone cots. SETTING Postnatal wards of the Royal Victoria Infirmary, Newcastle upon Tyne. PARTICIPANTS 1204 pregnant women intending to breastfeed were recruited at 20 weeks' gestation and randomised ...

Background Risk of infant sleep-related death can be reduced through safe sleep practices. Barriers to infant safe sleep have been mitigated through education and crib distribution, however, previous studies have not explored whether distributed cribs are put to use. Methods In a rural Michigan county, the Great Start Sleep Initiative supplied cribs and education shortly after infant birth to...

Dropping fire retardants by helicopter can effectively reduce the intensity of wildfires. This study proposes a test plan for spraying different from bucket extinguisher. In this study, pure water, 10% Class AB flame retardant, 0.3% gel A and retardant + 0.6% guar gum were each added to extinguishing device sprayed on 4-layer, 6-layer, 12-layer wood cribs. The radiation intensity, mass loss, te...

OBJECTIVES To ascertain whether the number of sudden infant deaths as a result of suffocation in cribs, in adult beds, on sofas or chairs, and on other sleep surfaces was increasing whether attributable to increased reporting, diagnostic shift, or an actual increase in suffocation deaths and to compare the risk of reported accidental suffocation for infants on sleep surfaces designed for infant...

Health care providers' opinions can influence how parents place their infant to sleep. Neonatal nurses can improve how they teach and model safe infant sleep practices to parents. To increase neonatal nurses' knowledge, a sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS) prevention program was implemented. Program components included a computerized teaching tool, a crib card, sleep sacks, and discharge instr...

BACKGROUND Impoverishment and crowding are associated with an increased risk of sudden unexpected death among infants. Bed sharing likely increases this risk, particularly among African American infants. OBJECTIVES To compare the sleep environment of African American infants who bed share with that of infants who do not share sleep surfaces and to compare access to a safe crib, and the space ...

Storage sheds like these Cameroonian corn cribs leave crops vulnerable to Aspergillus contamination. But contamination isn't always as obvious as it is on this ear of corn, and aflatoxin exposure can go undetected until health effects occur. Aid and development agencies are helping farmers learn how to spot and prevent Aspergillus.

Haiyong Wu, Jean Louis Coatrieux, and Huazhong Shu 1 Laboratory of Image Science and Technology, School of Computer Science and Engineering, Southeast University, Nanjing 210096, China 2 INSERM, U1099, 35000 Rennes, France 3 Laboratoire Traitement du Signal et de l’Image, Université de Rennes I, 35000 Rennes, France Centre de Recherche en Information Biomédicale Sino-Français (CRIBs), Nanjing 2...