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Alcohol consumption disrupts breastfeeding hormones

Despite age-old claims advising breastfeeding moms that alcoholic beverages can improve their nu... impede successful breastfeeding." For centuries, breastfeeding women have been advised to drink alcohol as an aid to milk production and optimal lactation. Recent ...

Antiretroviral Therapy May Prevent HIV Transmission From Breastfeeding Mothers To Infants

...others pass antiretroviral medications on to their breastfeeding infants in concentrations high enough to prevent i...fected women, and in the blood of their uninfected breastfeeding infants. All of the mothers had been receiving this combination of antiretroviral therapy continuous...

Pregnant women at higher risk for HIV, Uganda study finds

...ed the incidence rates of HIV during pregnancy and breastfeeding with the rates during intervals when pregnancy and breastfeeding were absent. The sexual behaviors of husbands of married women in the study were also assessed. Acc...

Women cautioned against using herbal supplements

...usal symptoms and premenstrual syndrome, to aid in breastfeeding or to decrease breast cancer risk. Warren reviewed the literature on herbal supplements and breast cancer risk for his report, which was reviewed by two international experts in the field as well as the five scientists on the BCERF staff. "Just bec...

Menopause Symptoms May Come Back After Stopping Menopausal Hormone Therapy

...usal symptoms and premenstrual syndrome, to aid in breastfeeding or to decrease breast cancer risk. Warren reviewed the literature on herbal supplements and breast cancer risk for his report, which was reviewed by two international experts in the field as well as the five scientists on the BCERF staff. "Just bec...

Studies clarify risk factors for mother-to-child transmission of hepatitis C virus

... (a risk factor in the U.S. study only). Although breastfeeding is a known risk for HIV transmission, both studies... an elective caesarean section or discouraged from breastfeeding on the basis of hepatitis C infection alone," said Pier-Angelo Tovo, MD, the lead author of the Euro...

Five surprising facts about starvation that could change the international agenda

...mproved water and sanitation systems, promotion of breastfeeding during an infant's first six months, enhanced health and nutrition information for parents, and micronutrient supplementation. "The wasted child cannot wait," conclude the authors. "Millions of children need immediate, life-saving attention coupled...

Study finds that a woman's chances of having twins can be modified by diet

...teinman found that women who become pregnant while breastfeeding are nine times more likely to conceive twins than women who are not breastfeeding at the time of conception. He also confirmed findings by others that identical twin sets are more of...

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