Science news articles about 'breast feeding'

ATLANTA (AP) -- More than 3 out of 4 new moms now breast-feed their infants, the highest rate in the U.S. in at least 20 years, according to a a government report released Wednesday....

... in a control group, a large study finds. Increased breast-feeding during the first months of life appears to ...

Researchers have found evidence that prolonged breast-feeding is associated with improved scores on some intelligence tests in childhood.

A Swedish study suggests that breast-feeding reduces a mother’s risk of rheumatoid arthritis.

ATLANTA (AP) -- Most U.S. hospitals don't do very well when it comes to promoting breast-feeding, according to the first national report to look at the issue. The average ...

CHICAGO (Reuters) - When a baby breast-feeds, it triggers a flood of the hormone oxytocin that releases milk from the mammary gland and a feeling of love and trust in the mother that ensures the baby' ...

... 1956 when Betty Wagner Spandikow and six other mothers in suburban Chicago gathered around a kitchen table to share breast-feeding tips and offer one another advice and support.

The advantages of breast-feeding infants far outweigh the negligible consequences of dioxin exposure, experts argue.

Online, the virtual "nurse-in" to protest Facebook's ban on breast-feeding photos took off, with hundreds joining a group that crept toward 70,000 members Saturday evening.

... mothers have support from family while they're breast-feeding may be a key strategy that enables humans ... associate professor of anthropology at Ohio State. Breast milk production places huge energy ...

... fervor, American women have come to take it as an article of faith that if they don’t breast-feed their children, they'll grow up to be underachievers plagued with health problems and lacking a bond ...

Mothers who worry that letting their babies use a pacifier will reduce the chances of successful breast-feeding should relax, a new study says.

There is new evidence that breast-feeding is associated with a lower incidence of breast cancer among younger women with breast cancer in the family.

... a cookie before breast-feeding, mom? Eating special cookies enriched with conjugated linoleic ... study suggests that CLA appearance in human breast milk can be increased by an acute ingestion of a CLA- ...

Researchers in Switzerland and Australia are reporting identification of proteins in human breast-milk — not present in cow's milk — that may fight disease by helping remove bacteria, viruses and ...