27.01.2012                      03.Schwat. 5772                      Auschwitz-Gedenk-Tag

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Parents to receive info on ‘shaken-baby syndrome’

Health Ministry instructs hospitals to give new parents instructional booklets to increase awareness of “shaken-baby syndrome”.

Soon after having a baby, all parents will receive an informational booklet explaining how to avoid “shaken-baby syndrome” in their infants. The story of four-month-old twins being treated for what police and pediatricians maintain resulted from the new parents shaking the babies caused great shock around the country. The parents of the boy, who is seriously hurt, and the girl, whose condition is improving, say the harm doctors found was due to a congenital disease. Babies with the syndrome exhibit brain damage and/or broken bones….