Health Column

Healthy infants, when being put to sleep, should be placed on their backs or their sides in order to reduce the chance that they will develop Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, the American Academy of Pediatrics recommended last week.

A statement released at the pediatricians' convention in New York City said that new research shows that the most common sleeping position for infants, prone, is associated with a higher incidence of SIDS.

Physicians often recommend that infants be placed on their stomachs in their cribs because of concerns that if the baby were to spit up or vomit, he or she would be...