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Surprised by the sharp rise in cases of SBS -- or abusive head trauma (AHT) -- since late 2007, Rachel Berger of the Children’s Hospital of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, teamed up with three other leading pediatric centers in Seattle in Washington state, Cincinnati and Columbus, both in Ohio, to study the issue. Examining data dating back to January 1, 2004 until the end of 2009, researchers r...

Researchers who studied the effects of recession on rates of the highly infectious disease during the fall of the Soviet Union in the early 1990s found a strong link between the two and said their findings suggest a similar pattern could emerge now. "Put simply, there’s a lot less money around for spending on public health," said Nimalan Arinaminpathy of Britain’s Oxford University, who ...