Mother-of-seven Mah Pari lives in a fertile region of Pakistan's southwest Balochistan province—but her two-year-old son, Gul Mir, is crying from hunger as she cradles him in her arms.
Nov 2, 2016
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Researchers at The University of Western Australia and Murdoch University have found that levels of pesticides in breast milk have dropped significantly during the past 40 years.
Oct 18, 2016
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Children who develop asthma or allergies have an altered immune response to intestinal bacteria in the mucous membranes even when infants, according to a new study from Linköping University, Sweden, and Center for Advanced ...
Oct 10, 2016
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Responding to a call from the American Academy of Pediatrics to reduce hospital-acquired infections in neonatal intensive care units across the country, researchers from the University of Missouri School of Medicine and Sinclair ...
Oct 7, 2016
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A type of sugar found naturally in some women's breast milk may protect new born babies from infection with a potentially life threatening bacterium called Group B streptococcus, according to a new study from Imperial College ...
Aug 26, 2016
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New research from the Liggins Institute sheds light on what affects stress hormone levels in breast milk.
Aug 10, 2016
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About 7 percent of all Danish children are born prematurely. This is of significant im-portance not only to the child's development, but it also affects the mother's body that - unexpectedly - has to produce the necessary ...
Aug 9, 2016
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The theme of World Breastfeeding Week 2016 is Breastfeeding: A key to sustainable development. The core message of this year's World Breastfeeding Week is to "learn to value our wellbeing from the beginning of life, and to ...
Aug 4, 2016
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A new study, which followed 180 pre-term infants from birth to age seven, found that babies who were fed more breast milk within the first 28 days of life had had larger volumes of certain regions of the brain at term equivalent ...
Jul 29, 2016
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While breastfeeding has become more common across the globe in recent years, lactating women may not be aware of the nutrient adequacy of their breast milk and how their daily diet affects their nutrition intakes. The research ...
Jul 29, 2016
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