>Margery Wilson <[log in to unmask]> posted:
>
>The pediatric providers where I work received a mailing and I thought all
>of you might be interested in knowing of it. It breaks my heart to think
>babies who are not breastfed are all already taking part in the on-going,
>uncontrolled feeding experiment known as "the formula industry." This study
>addresses an important question, but I think it will only serve to bolster
>sales of one type of formula over the other. I mean, where is the money in
>suggesting we promote breastfeeding? Funding for the breastfeeding support
>program I started 15 years ago has been eliminated, and I was feeling sorry
>for myself until a local pediatrician told me all the funding for the
>program at her hospital was cut, too.
>
>  "...pilot study of infant feeding will begin enrolling patients July 21 in
>the well-baby nurseries at Brigham and Women's Hospital
>[Boston]...and...Pediatric Health Associates Clinic at Children's Hospital
>[Boston]...The goal of this study is to develop and finalize recruitment
>strategies and sonography procedures on organs not commonly measured in
>infants in preparation for a larger randomized trial evaluating the
>biological response of infants to soy formula prepared with and without
>isoflavones.... [snip]


This sounds like the Study of Estrogen Activity and Development, which is
described in detail at <http://www.codares.com/sead/>. I wrote a brief
overview of it for Environmental Health Perspectives last year; that
article is at <http://ehpnet1.niehs.nih.gov/docs/2002/110-6/niehsnews.html>.

regards,
Julia


Julia R. Barrett
Freelance Science Writer
Madison, Wisconsin
608-238-8409; [log in to unmask]

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