Topic: National Institutes Of Health

Thinking about signing your baby up for a swim class? A surprising new study from the National Institutes of Health has found that toddlers who took swimming lessons in their first years of life were less likely to drown than those who ...

Breastfeeding lowers heart risks for mother: study

Postmenopausal women who have breastfed a child have a lower risk of heart attacks, stroke and cardiovascular disease, a study released Tuesday found.The study of 139,681 postmenopausal women found that those participants who breastfed for at least one month had lower blood ...
In many poor countries, mothers with HIV face a stark choice: One study was supported in large part by NIH, with additional funding by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the United States Agency for International Development. The other study, ...

New Research on the Benefits of Breast Milk

Research led by investigators from Johns Hopkins Children's Center suggests breast milk protects girls from severe respiratory infections to a greater degree than boys, challenging previous assumptions that the immune system chemicals present in breast milk exert a universal protective effect. If ...