Infant head trauma no more common in military families

By Veronica Hackethal, MD NEW YORK (Reuters Health) – Infants in military families have about the same risk of suffering head trauma from violent shaking, known as shaken baby syndrome, as civilian babies, a new study suggests. Researchers looking at U.S. Department of Defense records found between 26 and 34 out of every 100,000 babies born into military families had substantiated abusive head trauma in the first year of life, similar to civilian rates during the same period. …