Monday, February 12, 2007

New Alliance Advocates for Maternal/Foetal and Breastfeeding Health and Safety Issues, Particularly With Regards to the Safety of Medications

CNW Group: "New Alliance Advocates for Maternal/Foetal and Breastfeeding Health and Safety Issues, Particularly With Regards to the Safety of Medications

TORONTO, Feb. 12 /CNW Telbec/ - A new Alliance of health professionals,
academia, patients, health care policy experts and industry individuals has
been formed to address issues related to the use of medications during
pregnancy. The Canadian Alliance for Safe and Effective Medications in
Pregnancy and Breastfeeding (CaseMed-Pregnancy) intends to advocate for
maternal/foetal and breastfeeding health and safety issues, particularly with
regards to the safety of medications.
Founding members of CaseMed-Pregnancy are: Anne Tomalin, CanReg Inc.,
Dr. Gideon Koren, Motherisk, Dr. Donald Davis, Society of Obstetricians and
Gynaecologists of Canada (SOGC), Merc�des Benegbi, Thalidomide Victims
Association of Canada (TVAC) and Carole Boyer, Duchesnay Inc."
MIKE TO NEW MOMS: NURSE FOR 6 MONTHS
New York Post
February 11, 2007 -- Now that he has weaned New Yorkers off smoking and trans fats, Mayor Bloomberg is launching a multimillion-dollar good-parenting campaign that includes a push to put more newborns to the breast.
The city Health Department is spending more than $2 million in city-run hospitals to encourage moms to breast-feed.
"We don't yet have any hospitals in New York City that meet national 'baby-friendly' standards," Bloomberg's health commissioner, Dr. Thomas Frieden, said at a parenting conference last week....

Thursday, February 01, 2007

The best headline I've seen in a while...

I mean, are these guys for real?! Ms. Laycock is looking for a pro-bono lawyer. -- Ed.

"National Pork Board Threatens to Sue Lactivist Blogger
By Summer Minor
February 01, 2007

The National Pork Board has threatened to sue a breastmilk promoting mom over her spin off use of the Pork Board's trademark phrase "the other white meat". Jennifer Laycock, editor of Search Engine Guide, and founder of The Lactivist a site that aims to promote breastfeeding, stated that she recently received a letter threatening legal action over one of the humorous shirts that she sells from her blog.

The shirt in question reads "The Other White Milk", which Laycock says "I was comparing breastmilk which just happens to be white with the milk of a variety of other animals (cows? goats?) that happen to produce white milk and that often gets fed to infants INSTEAD of breast milk." She feels that this legal threat is ridiculous, and others agree...."