This can be regarded as a major breakthrough in the recorded history of the saga of medical science. In this regard it has come to knowledge from the sensational finding of Dr. Daniel D. Rubens belonging to the of Children's Hospital and Regional Medical Center in Seattle. As part of the study on the Early Human Development it has been found that all the babies in a Rhode Island study group, who succumbed to death as a result of the Sudden Infant Death Syndrome or the SIDS shared in general the identical idiosyncratic difference in their newborn hearing test results for the right inner ear. It is to be noted that this has been found as a result of the comparison to the infants who did not have SIDS. In addition, it has also been understood that this is for the first time when the experts adhering to the different fields of the medical science might be successful with the identification of the definite newborn babies who may be at a risk being affected by the SIDS. To them this can be estimated by virtue of a simple, reasonable and routine hearing test that can be done shortly after birth.

In the aforementioned study, the authentic medical records and hearing tests of 31 babies who died from SIDS in Rhode Island were thoroughly examined, followed by its stark comparison to healthy babies.

But what can be the possible source of SIDS. For the benefit of the readers SIDS, which has been known in the international continuum as "crib death" and "cot death," has long been able to get way from the concentrations of the prominent experts in medical science for centuries. But, it must be said, that this disease for centuries has been entirely responsible for loads of so-called previously unexplainable deaths of infants ranging between the ages of two to four months. The disease as has been perceived strikes the boys more than girls, SIDS causes tragic, sudden death in approximately 1 in 1,000 newborns world-wide, making it the largest cause of death in young infants. Only in the United States on each year in an approximate basis 3,600 deaths used to occur to SIDS from 1992-1999, according to the investigative study reports. The general symptom of this disease lays in the fact that it occurs during sleep, but apparently with no warning and no previous symptoms.

Dr. Rubens being questioned on the latest finding by the newsmen said, "This discovery opens a whole new line of inquiry into SIDS research. For the first time, it's now possible that with a simple, standard hearing test babies could be identified as at risk for SIDS, allowing preventative measures to be implemented in advance of a tragic event."