For babies who are breastfed, their first source of sustenance is filled with proteins, sugars, hormones, vitamins, and minerals — just the right amount of nutrients for an infant. That milk could ...
Shortly after giving birth at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Meredith Alley found herself visiting her son, Graham, in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). He had arrived earlier than ...
LONDON, United Kingdom, October 28, 2025 (EZ Newswire) -- A 2016 series published in The Lancet revealed that consistent breastfeeding worldwide could prevent approximately 800,000 child deaths each ...
The New York Milk Bank issued a voluntary recall for a select amount of donor human milk on October 11 due to possible contamination with foreign objects.
Extremely preterm infants remain a very high-risk category for illness and mortality. Prior research indicates this may be mitigated by feeding preterm infants with human milk fortified with a human ...
Mothers' Milk Bank California (MMBCA), one of the nation's leading nonprofit milk banks, announces a new research partnership with the renowned Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine. This ...
A type of sugar in human milk could help treat a common strain of Streptococcus bacteria, which can complicate pregnancies when it infects the vagina. Human milk remains understudied. “This is the ...
Wyandotte County has a high rate of low birth weight babies. A new milk depot could help get needed breast milk for those cases. The Wyandotte County Public Health Department is now a drop-off site ...
An adult female seal and a young seal lay side by side in grass. Atlantic gray seal mothers (shown, left) feed their young on high-fat milk that is also rich in complex sugars to support their ...