Sudden Infant Death Syndrome: Researcher who lost child to SIDS finds cause behind it

Australian researchers, led by Dr Carmel Harrington, have identified a biomarker that can detect babies more at risk of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) while they are alive. After losing her son, Damien, to SIDS 29 years ago, Dr Harrington, a research student at Children's Hospital at Westmead (CHW) has dedicated her career to finding answers for the condition. SIDS is the unexplained death of a healthy infant less than one year of age, during a period of sleep.
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