Dear All, A brief intro...I'm an LLL leader (somewhere between 8 and 9 years), scheduled to take the exam this summer. I've been lurking for a few weeks, but just ran across something that got my blood pressure rising. The Philadelphia Inquirer (a daily paper) printed a story on the first page of the "Health & Science" section today (the section geared mainly to women...Ann Landers, comics, gossip column, etc. sorry to sound so sexist, but the target audience is women) about a device being tested in a major Phila. hospital (has the most births in the area) that is hoped to eliminate the need for heel sticks in newborns for jaundice testing. The article, in referring to normal, physiologic jaundice (although they never refer to it that way), states, "This dangerous jaundice, which tends to appear a few days after birth, was practically eradicated in the 1950's and 60's, but has reemerged recently as babies have left the hospital more quickly and more mothers have tried breastfeeding." This is the only mention of breastfeeding in the article. If I didn't know the truth, I'd think breastfeeding certainly caused the "dangerous jaundice." Do you think the writers try to be ignorant, or is it a byproduct of having been formula fed as babies? Lee-Ann