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Dana Louise Raphael (January 5, 1926 – February 2, 2016) was an American medical anthropologist. She was a strong advocate of breastfeeding and promoted the movement to recruit non-medical care-givers to assist mothers during and after childbirth.
Sybil Shainwald (born April 27, 1928) is an American attorney specializing in women's health law and an activist for women's health reform. She has represented thousands of women and their children in individual and class action suits against manufacturers of harmful drugs, devices, and procedures.
Lactation counselors can be found working as staff in hospitals, at physician and midwife offices, in private practice, and in the public health sector. The candidates for the certified lactation counselor credential qualify for this designation by passing the didactic and written examinations of the Academy of Lactation Policy and Practice. [1]
Research shows that lactation consultants can increase the odds new mothers will breastfeed their babies and stick with it, but not everyone has access. Lactation consultants can help new moms ...
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People with HIV can breastfeed their babies, as long as they are taking medications that effectively suppress the virus that causes AIDS, a top U.S. pediatricians’ group said Monday in a sharp ...
The Seleni Institute was founded as a nonprofit institution by psychotherapist Nitzia Logothetis and her husband George Logothetis in 2011. [2] The name was chosen as a portmanteau of the Greek goddess Selene, who is associated with women, emotions, and serenity, and the main character in the book Eleni, [8] who in the Greek Civil War fought for her children to escape to America. [2]
The New York Law Institute library is located in the Equitable Building and has a circulating collection of over 250,000 print volumes, including Congressional documents, records on appeal, current and superseded U.S. and state laws, new and archival editions of legal treatises, and archival New York City and New York State materials.