News tagged with breast feeding
Do hospitals' freebies undermine breast-feeding?
(AP) -- Jessica Ewald brought more than a new baby boy home when she gave birth earlier this year. Like many new moms, she got a hospital goody bag, with supplies including free infant formula and formula ...
Sep 26, 2011 |
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Study challenges baby formula claim
Despite the formula being recommended in public health guidelines set out by the Australasian Society of Clinical Immunology and Allergy, the new study, published online in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology, found ...
Jul 14, 2011 |
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Researcher urges study of effects of breast pumps
(Medical Xpress) -- The widespread use of electric breast pumps by American women is fueling a "quiet revolution" in how infants receive their mothers' milk, argues Cornell nutritionist Kathleen Rasmussen in a commentary ...
Jul 07, 2011 |
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Folic acid given to mother rats protects offspring from colon cancer
Folic acid supplements given to pregnant and breast-feeding rats reduced the rate of colon cancer in their offspring by 64 per cent, a new study has found.
May 26, 2011 |
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New study of environmental contaminants in breast milk
The levels of environmental contaminants in a mother's body decrease during breast-feeding. After a year of lactation, the levels of a number of environmental contaminants in breast milk drop by 15 – 94 per cent, according ...
Jan 21, 2011 |
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Mother's milk improves the physical condition of future adolescents
Breast feeding new born babies has lots of advantages in the short and in the long-term for babies. A study has confirmed the recently discovered benefits, which had not been researched until now. Adolescents who are breast ...
Jan 05, 2011 |
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Study describes birthing differences in Somali, Sudanese and U.S women
(PhysOrg.com) -- Traditions surrounding childbirth are an intrinsic part of a culture, and when people emigrate and cultures intersect, fundamental beliefs surrounding labor and delivery can collide.
Sep 01, 2010 |
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International formula milk marketing code mired in 3 decades of dispute
An international marketing code for formula milk, intended to foster global cooperation among governments, industry, and aid agencies, has instead been mired in three decades of often bitter dispute, claims a child nutrition ...
Jul 26, 2010 |
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Studies reveal associations between pregnancy, breastfeeding, breast cancer and survival
Barcelona, Spain: Women who are diagnosed with breast cancer in the 12 months after they have completed a pregnancy are 48% more likely to die than other young women with breast cancer according to new research to be presented ...
Mar 25, 2010 |
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Intelligence in young children is not influenced by omega 3 fatty acid
(PhysOrg.com) -- Infant intelligence is more likely to be shaped by family environment than by the amount of docosahexoic acid (DHA), an omega 3 fatty acid, fed in breast milk or fortified formula, according to new research ...
Jan 22, 2010 |
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Infant sucking habits may affect how baby talks
(PhysOrg.com) -- Pacifier, baby bottle or finger sucking may hamper a child's speech development if the habit goes on too long.
Oct 21, 2009 |
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Social support during breast-feeding helps humans have more children
The fact that human mothers have support from family while they're breast-feeding may be a key strategy that enables humans to reproduce more rapidly than other primates, new research suggests. Social support helps mothers ...
Feb 13, 2009 |
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Prolonged nevirapine in breast-fed babies prevents HIV infection but leads to drug-resistant HIV
Babies born to HIV-positive mothers and given the antiretroviral drug nevirapine through the first six weeks of life to prevent infection via breast-feeding are at high risk for developing drug-resistant HIV if they get infected ...
Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS
Jan 05, 2009 |
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