http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. There are good reasons why people may want to swap soy with dairy milk. The carbon, water and phosphate footprint of soy milk is a fraction of the latter. But the main reason for the increasing popularity of soy milk seems to be health concerns, such as inflammatory bowel disease and lactose intolerance. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-03-soy-dairy-foryou.html Health Tue, 19 Mar 2013 09:00:03 EST news282901130 (Medical Xpress)—Breastfeeding can be a difficult time for both mother and baby, so using cabbage leaves and tea bags to ease pain or eating oatmeal to increase milk production are among the folk remedies that women pass along to new mothers seeking help. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-survey-folk-remedies-breastfeeding.html Health Mon, 21 Jan 2013 06:37:00 EST news277972603 Nations that consume a lot of milk and milk products also tend to have a lot of Nobel laureates among their populations, suggest the authors of a letter, published in Practical Neurology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-nations-consume-lot-nobel-prizes.html Neuroscience Mon, 14 Jan 2013 18:30:01 EST news277381500 Breastfeeding can be a difficult time for both mother and baby, so using cabbage leaves and tea bags to ease pain or eating oatmeal to increase milk production are among the folk remedies that women pass along to new mothers seeking help. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-01-breastfeeding-women-intrigue-doctors.html Health Mon, 07 Jan 2013 04:18:27 EST news276754653 Johns Hopkins scientists have found a surprising mechanism that gives male sex hormones like testosterone control over the gender-specific absence or presence of mammary gland nerves that sense the amount of milk available in breast milk ducts. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-male-hormones-differences-mammary-gland.html Medical research Thu, 06 Dec 2012 14:00:34 EST news274021844 Pouring at least one glass of milk each day could not only boost your intake of much-needed key nutrients, but it could also positively impact your brain and mental performance, according to a recent study in the International Dairy Journal. Researchers found that adults with higher intakes of milk and milk products scored significantly higher on memory and other brain function tests than those who drank little to no milk. Milk drinkers were five times less likely to "fail" the test, compared to non milk drinkers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-01-glass-day-benefit-brain.html Health Mon, 30 Jan 2012 09:35:25 EST news247138514 The World Health Organization said a study has found that Filipino mothers who have been influenced by advertisements or their doctors to use infant formula are two to four times more likely to feed their babies with those products. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-11-infant-formula-ads-breast-feeding.html Health Thu, 03 Nov 2011 05:39:51 EST news239517577 Introducing increasing amounts of foods that contain baked milk into the diets of children who have milk allergies helped a majority of them outgrow their allergies, according to a study conducted at Mount Sinai School of Medicine's Jaffe Food Allergy Institute. The data are reported in the May 23 issue of the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-07-foods-tolerance-children-dairy-allergies.html Health Fri, 01 Jul 2011 14:58:14 EST news228751080