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Marsha Walker came through nicely with the citation for
Anders Hakansson's work. He is a doctoral student at Lund
University in Sweden and it would certainly be nice if he
joined the Lactnet! What I always find interesting is when
news like that from Lund hits the non-medical press, and
thus has a greater potential for seeping into the popular
consciousness. The Washington Post, health
section, of 22 August 1995 carried a 70-line,
one-column-width piece entitled <Mother's milk carries
weapon against cancer>, which led with the not-so-rhetorical
<Is there anything that mother's milk can't do?>. This
article was picked up by the International Herald Tribune
(weekly science page) on 24 August, in shorter form. The
same space continued with a brief account of <A comeback for
milk banks>, also originally appearing in the Washington
Post, but on 22 August 1995. The highly abridged IHT
version closes by saying <Human-milk banking, after nearly
being wiped out by the threat of AIDS, is having a comeback
as safety measures have reduced fears of viral infection.
Nationally, more than 1000 infants will receive donor milk
from seven milk banks this year, up from a low of 600 in
1989.> By comparison, the full article notes that <By the
mid-1980s ... milk-banking ... was thriving across the
United States; 27 banks dispensed 260,000 ounces of breast
milk to about 1500 babies in 1984.> Please e-mail me if you
would like copies of the articles.
Jim Akre
Technical Officer, Nutrition
World Health Organization
Geneva, Switzerland
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