Mills-Peninsula Health Services has successfully developed a comprehensive breastfeeding education and support program that has significantly increased the number of women still breastfeeding six months after giving birth.
Decreased levels of the hormone prolactin may be the reason overweight and obese women have less success with breastfeeding.
Although some doctors prescribe unneeded antibiotics to children because they think it's easier and faster than telling parents why the medicine isn't necessary, findings from a new study fail to support that belief.
Results of a one-year study looking at thousands of children of farm families in rural, Central New York revealed that preschoolers were injured more often than older kids and that nearly one-quarter of their injuries were serious, severe, or life-threatening.
The Director of Pediatric Cardiology and the Pediatric Obesity clinic at the Brookdale University Hospital and Medical Center has been selected to present the results of her study "Is Juice Abuse Contributing To Childhood Obesity?" at the Pediatric Academic Societies annual meeting.
Research finds that when it's time for exams, students will try rituals, magic, and some will actually study. In most cases, it pays off.
Just as a spider strums specific fibers of its web and listens for returning signals to detect prey, a technique developed at Purdue University uses vibrations to pinpoint damage in composite materials for future military vehicles. Findings will be detailed during a conference on May 4.
Teaching English as a second language to K-12 students should never become a one-size-fits-all proposal, according to an associate professor in the Multilingual/Multicultural Education Program at Florida State University.
Thanks to Ball State University's Electronic Field Trip, tiny Calabash Caye off the Central American coast of Belize will have a population of 13 million for two days in May, virtually speaking.
A new study set out to assess Quality of Life in patients with advanced laryngeal/hypopharyngeal cancers that were treated with concurrent chemoradiotherapy and compare it to those treated with total laryngectomy.
The Mills College Art Museum will join the Oakland Museum of California and the African American Museum and Library at Oakland to present "Reflections in Black," the first exhibition exploring the history of black photography from 1840 to the present, with more than 300 powerful images by 120 photographers.
A new analysis of satellite data collected since the late 1970s from the lowest few miles of the atmosphere indicates a global temperature rise of about one-third of a degree Fahrenheit between 1979 and 1999.
Dr. Julie Louise Gerberding, director of Centers for Disease Control and Prevention will speak at the UCLA School of Public Health"šs annual commencement ceremony on Friday, June 13. The program begins at 5:30 p.m. in Royce Hall on the UCLA campus.
Karen A. Lash, newly appointed Equal Justice Works Vice President for Programs and former University of Southern California Law School Associate Dean, has been named the recipient of the 2003 Harriett Buhai Community Service Award in recognition of her work toward ensuring access to justice for under-served persons and communities.
Work by renowned artists Christo & Jeanne-Claude, Will Barnet, Jane Goldman, Mags Harries and Edward Sorel, among others, will be auctioned off at Montserrat College of Art's upcoming 17th Annual Art Auction, Artrageous!
A consortium of six universities and institutes led by Cornell University will establish the Center for the Study of Pulsed-power-driven High Energy Density Plasmas at Cornell, to .conduct high-energy density plasma research with the aim of developing a promising fusion power source.
The University of Maryland is teaming with the federal government to create a new and unprecedented research facility that will support the nation's critical need for increased language capabilities.
Prescription errors can occur if medicine is taken incorrectly or patients combine medicines with dietary supplements that shouldn't be taken together. A new booklet outlines four steps to help patients use prescription medicines safely.
Imagine living in a liquid with the same pH as ammonia and 10 times saltier than seawater. It's not the setting for a science fiction book, but a Washington lake populated with some very special bacteria, which may have special benefits for humans.
In what is believed to be a first-of-its-kind study, Johns Hopkins researchers have used magnetic resonance imaging to measure sodium concentrations in the cells of malignant brain tumors.
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