The goals of this article are to provide a review of key interventions and strategies that
impact initiation and duration of breastfeeding with particular focus on low-income African …

Very low birth weight (VLBW;< 1500 g birth weight) infants are substantially more likely to be
born to black than to non-black mothers, predisposing them to potentially preventable …

Breastfeeding and human milk are the normative standards for infant feeding and nutrition.
Given the documented short-and long-term medical and neurodevelopmental advantages of …

Risky health behaviors such as smoking, drinking alcohol, drug use, unprotected sex, and
poor diets and sedentary lifestyles (leading to obesity) are a major source of preventable …

The premise that unintended childbearing has significant negative effects on the behavior of
mothers and on the health of infants strongly influences public health policy and much of …

Background Epidemiologic data suggest that parity increases risk of hormone receptor-
negative breast cancer and that breastfeeding attenuates this association. Prospective data …

Background: Crops grown under elevated atmospheric CO 2 concentrations (eCO 2) contain
less protein. Crops particularly affected include rice and wheat, which are primary sources of …

Why has breastfeeding re-asserted itself over the last twenty years, and why are the
government, the scientific and medical communities, and so many mothers so invested in …

Global environmental change and recent worldwide infectious-disease outbreaks make the
ecological perspective of medical anthropology more important a field of study than ever. In …

This was a nurse-driven, hospital-based, prospective cohort study of data collected in 19
hospitals in San Bernardino and Riverside counties by California Perinatal Services …