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Policywise

An ounce of prevention: does breastfeeding protect against childhood cancer?

September 29, 2023 Big Data,  breast milk,  Breastfeeding,  Cancer,  Childhood Cancer,  children,  leukemia

Learning that your child has cancer might seem like a nightmare, but this year, the American Cancer Society projects that it will become a reality

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Infant feeding for parents with HIV: a decision at the intersection of reproductive justice, ethics and medicine

January 13, 2023 Breastfeeding,  Breastmilk,  Chestfeeding,  Formula,  HIV,  Infant feeding,  Parent

Parenting is hard. Making any parenting decision is especially hard in our current world with opinions from every side: family, friends, medical providers, even opinions

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From The Labs

Connecting the dots between lactating mother’s diet, milk composition, microbiome and benefits of mother’s milk

January 26, 2021 Breastfeeding,  diet,  HMO,  metabolic health,  milk microbiome,  Research

This study reports the first evidence that the mother’s diet while breastfeeding can shape the profile of HMOs, a type of food for microbes, which in turn modifies the functional abilities of the milk microbiome.

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When breastfeeding isn’t best

April 28, 2017 AIDS,  Baby,  Breastfeeding,  Center for Medical Ethics and Health Policy,  Cultural Norms,  Dr. Janet Malek,  ethics,  HIV,  medical ethics,  Values

The joy of a new baby brings new challenges, not the least of which is breastfeeding. These challenges are compounded when the mother is also

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From the Labs: Image of the Month

Blood vessels (magenta) intertwined with metastatic medulloblastoma tumor cells (green) nestled within the protective layers that surround the mouse spinal cord. From the Labs: a closer look at metastatic medulloblastoma

Healthy Habits: A DOC-umentary Series

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