Regina Benjamin Surgeon General

It's Official: August Is National Breastfeeding Month

Gina Ciagne, CLC | Posted 10.16.2011

Gina Ciagne, CLC

Many moms, medical experts, and lactation educators have long celebrated World Breastfeeding Month in August. But the United States Breastfeeding Committee has now proclaimed that August is officially National Breastfeeding Month.

Regina Benjamin, Obama's Pick for surgeon general

AP | DESIREE HUNTER and LAURAN NEERGAARD | Posted 05.25.2011

BAYOU LA BATRE, Ala. — When Hurricane Katrina wrecked the little clinic here in the coastal backwaters of Alabama, Dr. Regina Benjamin laid out ...