An increasing demand for lactation education has surfaced this fall semester at CSUN, and thanks to Dr. Merav Efrat, those demands are being met through courses, research, and curriculum development.

Breastfeeding is an accepted practice for millions of women worldwide and strongly endorse by the World Health Organization. To provide appropriate counseling about human milk and breastfeeding, it is ...

Mothers covered by Georgia Medicaid can now receive lactation services through telehealth under a new statewide policy ...

Since the spring of 2015, lactation spaces have been promoting the wellbeing of mothers and their children on CSUN’s campus. The university carries five different lactation spaces throughout campus ...

New students may begin the program in the fall or spring term. Didactic classes meet on the Drexel Center City Campus once per week from 6 to 9:50 p.m. Supervised practice is completed in Philadelphia ...

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The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) still recommends primary care behavioral counseling for breastfeeding, mostly in line with its 2016 guidelines. In the updated recommendation statement ...

Black mothers are faced with a disproportionate number of barriers to breastfeeding compared to other racial and ethnic groups. Black mothers are faced with a disproportionate number of barriers to ...

There’s no money to study breastfeeding or provide care. There are packs of angry influencers and others on social media ready to vilify anyone who addresses it in clinical terms. Perhaps most ...

Susan Fuchs is an international board certified lactation consultant with a background in nutrition. She was in one of the first cohorts of Drexel’s Lactation Certificate program while obtaining her ...