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Wednesday, October 28, 2009

What's wrong with patenting human milk components?

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Why should we be concerned about the patenting and commodification of human milk components? It's a good thing, right? It shows that at ...
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Saturday, October 24, 2009

The "catch-22" of probiotics/prebiotics in breastfed infants

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As breastfeeding mothers madly dash for the probiotic drops for their colicky infants, they might want to rethink this supplement, especiall...
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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

CDC does not recommend nasal flu vaccine for pregnant women

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The CDC does not recommend that pregnant women get the nasal flu vaccine. They recommend the inactivated virus vaccine shot. see http://www....

Genetically engineered vaccine

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The H1N1 flu vaccine created by Medimmune is patented. Two patents by this company are described at the US Patent & Trademark Office. T...
Tuesday, September 29, 2009

Marketing Swine Flu

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Many have forgotten the 1976 CDC campaign to get the public vaccinated against swine flu. Many who will be impacted by the current hysterics...
Wednesday, August 12, 2009

keeping the silence

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"Method for stimulating the functional attributes of human milk oligosaccharides in formula-fed infants." A recent title to a new...
Thursday, August 6, 2009

Silencing other views, more patents

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It seems to be a common response to alternative ideas on medicine, science, politics, even lactation consulting to respond in ways to silenc...
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Valerie W. McClain
How does one describe oneself to those who landed on this page in this virtual library called the internet? I was born in Canada and moved to the USA when I was six years old. I graduated from the State University College of New York at Potsdam with a BA, majoring in political science. Got married, got divorced. Got married again, had children, got divorced. I birthed all my babies at home, breastfed them, and became a La Leche League leader for 10 years. I became an a IBCLC (International Board Certified Lactation Consultant) in 1991 and retired that credential in the fall of 2011. I was employed by the WIC Program for 4 years in Volusia County, Florida. In 1998 I began to question the reasoning behind denying hiv positive women the right to breastfeed. In my research for answers I stumbled upon a human milk component patent to be used to treat hiv/aids patients. Thus began my quest to understand why so much of the real knowledge of human milk is buried.
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