A 26-year-old New Jersey man stabbed his sister and her young daughter and slashed her infant son across the face during a dispute yesterday, the police said, adding that all three were expected to survive.
A mandate to test all newborns for high bilirubin levels, which can lead to brain damage, slashed the number of infants requiring readmission by 24%.
The clear and present danger to recovery, however, comes from politics — specifically, the demand from House Republicans that the government immediately slash spending on infant nutrition, disease control, clean water and more.
Categorising the results according to a nation's economic status, researchers found that breastfeeding in high-income countries slashed the risk of sudden infant death by more than a third.
Beneath the photo of an infant: tortured; hacked by machete, slashed by machete in his mother's arms, age nine months.
Congressional Republicans also defunded Planned Parenthood, slashed funding for the Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), delayed reauthorizing the Violence Against Women Act, and mocked women's claims of pay discrimination in the labor market.
And Rupert Murdoch did his best to stifle the infant paper by pure financial brute force: he slashed the price of the Times to a level that was predatory in intention, if not in law.
The legislation passed by House Republicans in the wee hours of February 19 (no Democrats voted for it) slashed $747 million -- about 10percentt -- from the 2011 budget for the Special Supplemental Feeding Program for Women, Infants and Children.
The body of a woman who had been slashed to death was discovered on a street in Brooklyn on Monday, about 30 feet from a car where her infant son was found sitting unharmed, the police said.
