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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