In today's papers: "In a controversial finding, the team found that children who were breastfed for more than four months who also received antibiotics were more likely to develop allergies." Antibiotics for infants linked to childhood asthma http://www.canada.com/edmonton/edmontonjournal/story.asp?id=A340E0CF-0AB4-4247-B980-A50AF7A9E2B7 Asthma 'may be linked to antibiotics in infancy' http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/10/01/wanti01.xml&sSheet=/portal/2003/10/01/ixportal.html Barb Strange *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html