National Breastfeeding Awareness Month: Texas Children's mothers' milk bank
Related topics Texas Children's HospitalbreastfeedingHouston Advertisement Texas Children’s Hospital is celebrating one year of providing donor breast milk to infants in the hospital’s neonatal...
View ArticleMedela Announces Virtual Human Milk Collection Campaign Award Recipients in...
Medela to donate $30,000 in Neonatal Human Milk Support Products to Neonatal Intensive Care Units in Florida, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, North Dakota and Wisconsin , Dec. 15, 2010...
View ArticleProlacta Bioscience® Continues Steady Donations to Susan G. Komen for the...
-- The Two Organizations Extend Agreement through April 30, 2012 -- MONROVIA, Calif. - Prolacta Bioscience, the first and only company to offer human milk fortifier (HMF) made from 100% human breast...
View ArticleTexas Children's Hospital offering highest level of care to Houston families
Related topics Texas Children's HospitalbabiesinfantsNICU Advertisement A recent review of by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has provided a new policy statement updating the levels of care...
View ArticleTexas Children's Hospital recognized for nursing excellence with Magnet...
HOUSTON, Aug. 13, 2012 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Hospital is one of only 7 percent of U.S. healthcare organizations recognized for nursing excellence Texas Children's Hospital for the third...
View ArticleTexas Children's Fetal Center launches first fetal interventional program in...
To: HEALTH AND NATIONAL EDITORS Multidisciplinary effort to save babies' hearts before birth brings families hope HOUSTON, May 4, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The team at Texas Children's Fetal...
View ArticleTexas Children's Hospital Video Drives Home Importance of Meningitis Law
"Facing Meningitis" video features meningitis survivor, Jamie Schanbaum, and parents of Nicolis Williams HOUSTON, July 31, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- "If you don't get the vaccine for meningitis,...
View ArticleIn vitro study finds digested formula, but not breast milk, is toxic to...
(Source: University of California) Findings may help explain development of fatal condition in premature infants Free fatty acids created during the digestion of infant formula cause cellular death...
View ArticleMedela Announces 2011 Virtual Human Milk Collection Campaign Award Recipients
Medela to donate $30,000 in Breastfeeding Support Products to Neonatal Intensive Care Units...
View ArticleProlacta Bioscience® Applauds American Academy of Pediatrics Revised Policy...
MONROVIA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Prolacta Bioscience applauds the revised policy statement recently released by the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), recommending that all preterm infants...
View ArticleDr. Michael A. Belfort Named Chair of Obstetrics and Gynecology at Baylor...
HOUSTON, Oct. 6 – HOUSTON, Oct. 6 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Michael A. Belfort, M.D., Ph.D., an internationally recognized expert in maternal-fetal medicine and fetal intervention, has been named...
View ArticleStrategies helped California hospitals improve breast milk feeding rates for...
NOV. 8, 2012 BY ERIN DIGITALE Premature babies benefit from consuming breast milk, but their chance of receiving it has been strongly influenced by the hospital where they spend their early days. Now,...
View ArticleDigested formula, but not breast milk, found toxic to cells (University of...
(Source: University of California) SAN DIEGO - Free fatty acids created during the digestion of infant formula cause cellular death that may contribute to necrotizing enterocolitis, a severe...
View ArticleDonations to Susan G. Komen for the Cure® from Prolacta Bioscience Surpasses...
MONROVIA, Calif. - Prolacta Bioscience, the first and only company to offer human milk fortifier (HMF) made from 100% human breast milk for critically ill, premature infants, has announced that their...
View ArticleIn vitro study finds digested formula, but not breast milk, is toxic to cells
Scientists have long known that premature infants fed formula are more likely to develop necrotizing enterocolitis than those fed breast milk. The condition is the leading cause of death from...
View ArticleSaving babies' lives, ounce by ounce
Hospitals and other organizations routinely urge people to give blood, bone marrow and even some organs, but Texas Children's Hospital is launching a different kind of donor program: breast milk. The...
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