{"id":3468,"date":"2025-04-30T23:02:45","date_gmt":"2025-04-30T23:02:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/30\/nih-ends-participation-in-safe-to-sleep-campaign-to-prevent-infant-deaths\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T23:02:45","modified_gmt":"2025-04-30T23:02:45","slug":"nih-ends-participation-in-safe-to-sleep-campaign-to-prevent-infant-deaths","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/30\/nih-ends-participation-in-safe-to-sleep-campaign-to-prevent-infant-deaths\/","title":{"rendered":"NIH cancels participation in Safe to Sleep campaign that decreased infant deaths"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    NIH cancels participation in Safe to Sleep campaign that decreased infant deaths<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The Trump administration has cancelled federal participation in Safe to Sleep, a 30-year campaign to prevent babies from dying in their sleep, STAT and the Medill News Service have learned.<\/p>\n<p>The elimination of the National Institutes of Health\u2019s role in the program, which helped slash infant deaths in the 2000s, comes at a time when sleep-related deaths among infants have increased. Sudden infant death rates were up nearly 12% between 2020 and 2022, according to the most recent data in a <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/2831719?widget=personalizedcontent&amp;previousarticle=2830298\">study<\/a> published in JAMA Pediatrics.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/04\/30\/nih-ends-participation-in-safe-to-sleep-campaign-to-prevent-infant-deaths\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Ismael M. Belkoura \u2014 Medill News Service<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/04\/30\/nih-ends-participation-in-safe-to-sleep-campaign-to-prevent-infant-deaths\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NIH cancels participation in Safe to Sleep campaign that decreased infant deaths WASHINGTON \u2014 The Trump administration has cancelled federal participation in Safe to Sleep, a 30-year campaign to prevent babies from dying in their sleep, STAT and the Medill News Service have learned. The elimination of the National Institutes of Health\u2019s role in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2433,2177,2181,1428,2148,2180],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-3468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-childrens-health","category-donald-trump","category-exclusive","category-health","category-nih","category-public-health","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}