Is Sleeping With Your Baby a Good Idea? Here’s What the Science Says
Researchers surveyed scientific studies on co-sleeping, revealing a polarizing debate between its risks and benefits.
Researchers surveyed scientific studies on co-sleeping, revealing a polarizing debate between its risks and benefits.
Sen. Richard Blumenthal is calling for “immediate, aggressive action” against Philips for keeping known defects with the company’s CPAP machines secret.
Philips has reached an agreement to resolve all economic loss claims related to Philips Respironics’ voluntary recall of certain sleep and respiratory care devices.
Public health messages warning against infants sleeping with stuffed toys and blankets—contradicted by photos or videos circulating in movies and social media—don’t always find traction.
Read MorePhilips Respironics provided the latest results and conclusions on the comprehensive test and research program to assess potential health risks related to the polyester-based polyurethane sound abatement foam in specific sleep therapy and ventilator devices under the voluntary June 2021 recall.
Read MoreAn initiative to solve a several thousand-year-old medical mystery—what causes sudden or unexplained infant deaths—has led to new insights that recently were presented at the 6th annual SIDS Summit.
Read MorePhilips Respironics provided an update on the field action for specific sleep therapy and ventilator devices involved in the company’s ongoing recall.
Read MoreThe US Consumer Product Safety Commission is urging consumers to stop using infant loungers that were recalled in 2021, as well as other loungers that don’t meet sleep safety requirements.
Read MoreThe FDA updated its Philips Respironics recall safety communication to provide updated information about medical device reports that the agency received from Jan 1 to March 31.
Read MoreRoyal Philips’ CEO says the third-party risk assessments for the sleep therapy devices under the June 2021 recall are “positive and reassuring.”
Read MorePhilips provides an update on field action for specific sleep therapy and ventilator devices involved in the company’s ongoing recall.
Read MoreECRI released its annual Top 10 Health Technology Hazards report, and its biggest safety concern directly relates to sleep medicine.
Read MoreThe baby bed is designed to keep sleeping babies positioned on the back—a position known to lower the risk of sudden infant death syndrome.
Read MoreThe new Safety Standard for Infant Sleep Products makes it unlawful to sell non-compliant infant sleep products and applies to products manufactured on or after June 23.
Read MoreThe American Academy of Pediatrics emphasizes the need for infants to sleep on their backs on flat noninclined surfaces within its first update to safe infant sleep recommendations since 2016.
Read MoreWith obesity rates rising, it may be time for your sleep disorders center to rethink patient beds.
Read MoreThe Safe Sleep for Babies Act of 2021 will add inclined sleepers for infants and crib bumpers to the list of banned hazardous products.
Read MoreIn the Pediatrics on Call Podcast, Michael Goodstein, MD, FAAP, about best ways to model safe sleep as newborns transition out of the neonatal intensive care unit.
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