Judy and Kathy-- I listened to the report yesterday morning on the radio and wondered if other LCs were thinking what I was thinking :-) The original article was published May 8, 1997 in the New England Journal of Medicine and is titled: The Role of Cockroach Allergy and Exposure to Cockroach Allergen in Causing Morbidity among Inner-City Children with Asthma. The top authors are listed as David L. Rosenstreich, Peyton Eggleston, Meyer Kattan, Dean Baker, Raymond G. Slavin, Peter Gergen, Herman Mitchell, Kathleen McNiff-Mortimer, Henry Lynn, Dennis Ownby, Floyd Malveaux, for the National Cooperative Inner-City Asthma Study. The contributing Institutions listed are to numerous to mention here; Dr. Rosenstreich is affiliated with Albert Einstein School of Medicine in New York. A summary of the article (and list of authors/institutions) can be found at http://www.nejm.org/public/1997/0336/0019/1356/1.htm I'd be interested to know how many of the researchers (there must be some?) consider "not breastfed" as a component of what I have heard at least one allergist refer to as "the atopic epidemic." Margery Wilson, IBCLC Cambridge, Massachusetts