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...recent study suggests that packing a fuller lunch bag may reduce certain types of breast cancer risk, Harvard Medical School (HMS) announced Tuesday...
...report, published in the Nov. 27 Archives of Internal Medicine and headed by Karin B. Michels, associate professor of obstetrics, gynecology, and reproductive biology at HMS and Brigham and Women’s Hospital, explored the link between body mass index (BMI) and premenopausal breast cancer...
...Premenopausal breast cancer is usually more aggressive and deadly than postmenopausal breast cancer,” Michels wrote in an e-mail. “It is also particularly tragic for a young woman to get breast cancer...
...Youse's first donation to iThemba Lethu was her own breast milk. She kept an online journal to share the experience with her family, but other mothers soon became interested in her story of shipping across international borders and asked how they could might contribute. "I figured there were hundreds of moms in the same position," says Youse. She established the International Breast Milk Project in May, sending about 23 gallons of tested and pasteurized frozen breast milk to Africa; DHL agreed to make the delivery free of charge. Within six months, 300 mothers from across the U.S. applied...
...International Breast Milk Project's third shipment, nearly another 23 gallons (this time shipped care of FedEx, on the house), arrived in Durban on Thanksgiving Day. And the sentiment of that holiday isn't lost on anyone. The nurses at iThemba Lethu often give thanks and bless the baby for whom the milk was produced, before they share it with an orphan who needsit. Penny Reimers, a registered nurse who runs the milk bank there, says every time she feeds one of the orphans, "It's like watching a little miracle unfolding. Within days we start to see a difference...