Although malaria is a curable and preventable disease it still kills one million people a year, and infects 350 million. It remains the single largest killer of children in Africa with about 3,000 children dying of the disease there every day.

In The Republic of Congo, one widowed mother who earns $240 a month as a civil servant says she often spends up to $170 a month on medicine to treat her six children for malaria during the year

Citing a dramatic increase in infant deaths, Los Angeles County officials are warning parents not to let babies sleep in the bed with them.

The warning comes at a time when the practice, known as "co-sleeping," is growing in global popularity

A new study by Statistics Canada released Tuesday correlated higher income levels with lesser sleep. The survey said those who earned $60,000 or more annually had 40 minutes lesser winks on any given day than someone who earned only $20,000 per annum.

The average sleeping time for females was eight hours and 18 minutes, while males slept 7 minutes less. But there were more women who had sleeping problems compared to men

A recentUniv. of Montreal study of 987 children followed from age five months to six years found that babies with sleep problems - difficulty in getting to sleep, awakening at night with nightmares or even having less 10 hours of sleep at night are likely to have more sleep problems in their childhood.

This new study is being published in the April issue of Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine

Infants who sleep less than twelve hours a day are at a greater risk of becoming overweight in preschool, a new Harvard study has found. Also, regular television viewing increases the risk of babies and toddlers becoming overweight.

Babies who watch more than two hours of television had a 16 percent chance of becoming overweight, the research published in April's Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine said. The study was based on mothers' reports of their babies' sleep and television viewing habits, and direct measures of the children's height, weight and skin thickness