AAP News Vol. 13 No. 11 November 1997, p. 30
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Medical-legal thriller casts new light on SIDS conrtroversy

A new book on murder previously reported as SIDS has sent ripples through the pediatric community, leading to a notice in the October 1997 edition of Pediatrics (page A76) and national media commentary from the journal's editor, Jerold F. Lucey, M.D., FAAP.

The medical-legal thriller is "The Death of Innocents: A True Story of Murder, Medicine, and High-Stakes Science," by Richard Firstman and Jamie Talan. It chronicles a case of multiple infanticide in upstate New York, excused as SIDS because of a study originally published 25 years ago in Pediatrics.