Lack of policy and infrastructure to support breastfeeding in the US means that breastfeeding is made unnecessarily difficult. Breastfeeding is an important public health issue, both for women and children. Growing evidence shows that longer durations of breastfeeding are linked with a lower risk of many costly chronic diseases, including...

As a physician and public health advocate, I am disappointed to see that one of the country's largest formula makers is sponsoring the new Workplace Lactation Toolkit. The toolkit's release in February came on the heels of the federal government's own toolkit, The Business Case for Breastfeeding ....

Breastfeeding saves lives and health care dollars, and promoting breastfeeding rates is one of the government's Healthy People goals. Yet most women do not even meet their own breastfeeding goals, not to mention those set by the government.

Research shows that what a mother and baby experience just in those...