Breast Feeding

In a first-of-its kind effort, IBM to ship travelling employees' breast milk home

In a first-of-its kind effort, IBM is planning to soon launch a service to help the company's working mothers ship breast milk home to their babies while they are on business trips.

Breast milk protein TNC can neutralise HIV, shows new study

The protein, called Tenascin-C or TNC, had previously been recognised as playing a role in wound healing, but had not been known to have antimicrobial properties. The discovery could lead to potential new HIV-prevention strategies.

Breast feeding can reduce chances of breast cancer: Report

Women who had not breastfed their babies were, on average, found to get breast cancer 10 years earlier than breastfeeding mothers.

Study says breastfeeding improves brain development in infants

Breastfeeding alone produced better brain development than a combination of breastfeeding and formula, which produced better development than formula alone.

Time releases provocative cover on breast-feeding

Mama's boy gets a whole new meaning in Time magazine this week.