Breastfeeding 'aids class status'
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Babies who are breastfed are more likely to move up the social ladder as adults, a study claims.
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Breast-fed children are more intelligent than their bottle-fed counterparts, but this has nothing to do with the content of the milk they receive, a study published in the British Medical Journal said.
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Feeding very low birth-weight infants with mother's milk rather than formula doesn't seem to improve their neurological development, researchers have found.
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A study in the November issue of Arthritis and Rheumatism on how hormones contribute to the onset of Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), says women who breastfeed for more than 12 months may reduce their risk of RA by 50 percent.
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NEW YORK  - Women who breastfeed are less  likely to develop rheumatoid arthritis than women who don't,  according to a new report.
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Older women and migrant families boost births.
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NEW YORK  - Breastfeeding in infancy appears to be associated with a reduced risk of type 2 diabetes later in life, according to a quantitative analysis of published evidence conducted by investigators in the UK.
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Babies who are breastfed have a lower risk of developing childhood leukemia, according to a new analysis of 14 studies by researchers at the University of California, Berkeley.
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A study may have discovered why breastfeeding might help protect children against asthma, scientists say.
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A debate over breast-feeding vs. bottle feeding went to the top Philippine court Tuesday, with health officials arguing that aggressive advertising by U.S. and British companies has some women believing formula is better than their own milk.
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Part of the answer to why children raised on breast milk tend to score higher on I.Q. tests may lie in a gene.
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For new mothers trying to lose those extra pounds, breastfeeding may not be the surefire answer that many women consider it to be, according to two Cincinnati researchers.
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Trauma and malnutrition leave many refugee mothers unable to breast-feed.
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NEW YORK  - Confirming previous research,  the results of a population-based Danish study show that a high  birth weight is associated with an increased risk of breast  cancer later in life.
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Drinking a pint of milk a day may protect against diabetes and heart disease, say researchers in Cardiff.
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Giving babies nutritious food could significantly increase their earning power as adults, new research suggests.
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In an attempt to raise the nation's historically low rate of breast-feeding, federal health officials commissioned an attention-grabbing advertising campaign a few years ago to convince mothers that their babies faced real health risks if they did not breast-feed. It featured striking photos of i...