By THOMAS HARGROVE and LEE BOWMAN, Scripps Howard News Service
Autopsy rates differ by race, age, sex, education
A first-of-its-kind study has found that younger, well-educated and wealthy people are more likely to be autopsied when they die.
More men than women are autopsied. And blacks, Hispanics, Asians and Native Americans are more likely to be autopsied than whites.
Cause of death investigations often dead wrong
Hundreds of thousands of death certificates filed every year in the United States are wrong, meaning we don't really know what's killing Americans.
The erroneous death certificates cause medical researchers to look at the wrong health threats, and mislead people to the real diseases that run in their families.
Cause of death investigations often dead wrong
Hundreds of thousands of death certificates filed every year in the United States are wrong, meaning we don't really know what's killing Americans.
The erroneous death certificates cause medical researchers to look at the wrong health threats, and mislead people to the real diseases that run in their families.
CDC to create SIDS registry
The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in a few months will launch a revolutionary surveillance program to study why nearly 5,000 babies die unexpectedly and mysteriously each year.
Conference questions safety of sleeping with baby
PITTSBURGH -- America grossly undercounts the number of babies who suffocate in avoidable sleeping accidents, top medical authorities and child safety advocates agreed in a first-of-its-kind gathering to combat sudden infant death.
No consensus on safety of babies sleeping by parents
PITTSBURGH -- America grossly undercounts the number of babies who suffocate in avoidable sleeping accidents, top medical authorities and child safety advocates agreed in a first-of-its-kind gathering to combat sudden infant death.
A summit to improve investigation of sudden infant death
PITTSBURGH -- Child-safety advocates assembled here Friday to consider reform measures, including new federal legislation, to improve the investigation and prevention of sudden infant death.
In Idaho, failed effort to create state team to review child deaths
Idaho remains the only state in the country that doesn't give special attention to the deaths of children following the collapse this week of a reform bill in the legislature.
Record number of U.S. babies died of 'unknown causes'
A record number of babies in the United States officially died of "unknown causes" according to the latest federal statistics, evidence of growing medical uncertainty about sudden infant death.At the same time, reported cases of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome held steady at historically low levels.
Experts, lawmakers call for standardized infant death investigations
WASHINGTON -- Influential members of Congress and child safety advocates are working to change how America investigates and diagnoses more than 4,000 sudden infant deaths each year.
