Meet our Saving Babies’ Lives team who focus on the prevention aspect of Sands’ work. Together, #WeAreSands June is Sands Awareness Month – raising awareness and understanding of baby death across the UK […]
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Pre-term and low birthweight infants have fewer fractures in childhood than full-term and normal-weight newborns, according to a new a study from the University of Eastern Finland and Kuopio University Hospital. The register-based cohort study from Finland utilised the nationwide Medical Birth Register, the Care Register for Health Care, and data provided by Statistics Finland. […]
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Alternatives to hospital admissions for children insufficient, new report claims: There are record numbers of unwell children being admitted to Scottish hospitals and the current new alternatives being used are insufficient, a new University of Aberdeen study concludes. The researchers are calling for the introduction of a “Hospital at Home” service for those children who […]
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Leeds Children’s Hospital heart surgeons have performed two scimitar syndrome repairs using an innovative surgical procedure, never-before performed in the UK. Scimitar Syndrome is a rare congenital condition in which a vein from the right lung is abnormally connected to the heart causing oxygenated blood from the lung to return to the wrong side of […]
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The dangers of swallowing things: While some objects swallowed can pass straight through there are many occasions where this does not happen, and the results can be life-changing or fatal. Babies and young children tend to put everything into their mouths. For them, it is an additional sense and part of their development. However, this […]
First aid skills all parents should know: Making sure your child is safe can feel like a full-time job but with a few essential first aid skills it can soon feel more manageable. In this article we will outline five first aid emergencies that may affect your child and how to respond as parents. So […]
Birth Injuries – Common Causes, Prevention, and Compensation Options: According to the CDC (Center for Disease Control), 7 out of 1000 babies in the US suffer from birth injuries. And while some of these injuries have a genetic factor, there are cases when the injury occurred due to medical negligence. For instance, fractured collar bones […]
Children often have nose bleeds. They can be a result of warm weather or exercise, which dilate the small blood vessels in their nose, or they can be the result of picking or poking their noses, or running into things. If a child has a nose bleed: Sit them down. Grab something absorbent to catch […]
Unreliable medical determinations of Shaken Baby Syndrome are pervasive around the world and lead to many miscarriages of justice, say experts in a new book published next month. ‘Shaken Baby Syndrome: Investigating the Abusive Head Trauma Controversy’ is the first international book to examine the medical, scientific, and legal underpinnings of the SBS controversy. Experts […]
Talking to toddlers helps shape their developing brain, according to new research from the University of East Anglia. Researchers captured thousands of hours of language data from babies and toddlers wearing small recording devices. They also carried out MRI scans to study the structure of their developing brains, looking in particular at a substance called […]
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