New study identifies risk factors in severity of 'flat head syndrome' in babies

Tuesday, March 10, 2009 - 13:49 in Health & Medicine

A new study by physician researchers from Hasbro Children's Hospital and Children's Hospital Boston identifies risk factors for the severity of asymmetrical head shapes, known as deformational plagiocephaly (DP), or more commonly as flat head syndrome. The study was published in the March 2009 edition of the Journal of Craniofacial Surgery.

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