Toys "R" Us is taking safety measures on crib products to a higher level by requiring benchmarks over government and industry safety rules.

The stringent measures include specific trees crib makers could use, the way spindles are attached to crib railings and the glue used. The toy stores threatened to ban crib makers which would not follow their new rules

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) is urging consumers to stop using certain 3-in-1 and 4-in-1 convertible bassinets after two infants died from strangulation.

The "close-sleeper/bedside sleeper" bassinets are made by Simplicity Inc. of Reading, PA. The agency's safety alert was prompted by the death of a 6-month-old Kansas girl who died from strangulation Aug. 21 after getting caught in the product's metal bars, the Washington Post said Friday

Life expectancy was linked to the social environment where an individual is born, live, grow, work and age, according to a report released Thursday by the World Health Organization.

"The toxic combination of bad policies, economics and politics is in large measure responsible for the fact that a majority of people in the world do not enjoy the good health that is biologically possible," the WHO commissioners wrote in "Closing the Gap in a Generation: Health Equity through Action on the Social Determinants of Health

Giving an infusion of magnesium sulfate, better known as Epsom salt, to women at imminent risk for preterm delivery cuts the odds of their infants later developing cerebral palsy dropped by almost half, researchers say.

Babies born prematurely account for about a third of all cases of cerebral palsy, a developmental brain disorder that affects movement, motor skills and muscle coordination because of brain damage caused during birth

Babies born by Caesarean section have a greater risk of developing type-1 diabetes than those who are born via normal deliveries, British research suggests.

Researchers from Queen's University Belfast examined data from 20 published studies on children with type-1 diabetes who were born by caesarean. The results found that that babies born by caesarean had a 20 percent higher risk of diabetes compared with babies born by natural birth. The normal risk of a baby developing type 1 diabetes is three in 1,000