Healthy Kids: New guidelines for kids' media use and SIDS prevention

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FORT MYERS, Fla.- It's a busy week for the American Academy of Pediatrics. It's revising two policies on kids media use and Sudden Infant Death Syndrome. Dr. Annette St. Pierre-Mackoul stopped by the studio to discuss what these new guidelines mean for you and your family.

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