Hi Valerie I noticed the same thing recently, re your comment "It certainly helps to have someone like researcher Dr. Jose Saavedra of John Hopkins promoting probiotics in medical journals. Of course most people don't know that he is also the medical and scientific director of Nestle USA." My boss passed a nutrition journal to me with some lactation related articles. There was much other articles about probiotics. I'm not sure if Saavedra was author but the articles seemed so ironic to me as they were about gut diseases (largely preventable via bf) and treatments with probiotics. So I wrote in the margins something like "take away bf and give them the disease, then cure them with stuff from breastmilk." I also find it ironic that I think it is Ross that makes an RSV vaccine or treatment but that bf will largely help prevent RSV. So it tends to make me wonder if Ross has a vested interest in having RSV to treat. Laurie Wheeler, IBCLC, MN, RN New Orleans Louisiana, s.e. USA _________________________________________________________________ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com *********************************************** 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