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Investing in breast-feeding

Article Abstract:

UK rates for breast-feeding at birth fell to 64% in 1990 from 67% in 1980. Sixty-one percent of mothers were still breast-feeding two weeks after the baby's birth, while 25% were feeding at four months in 1990. Initiatives to promote breast-feeding have included a network of breast-feeding co-ordinators and limitations on advertising bottle formulas. Women often feel that it is better to bottle feed and society discourages breast-feeding especially in public. Support from groups such as Invest in Breast Together and the National Childbirth Trust is invaluable to a mother wishing to breast-feed.

Offices of All Other Miscellaneous Health Practitioners, Offices of health practitioners, not elsewhere classified, Nurses, United Kingdom, Statistics, Breast feeding

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Under the skin

Article Abstract:

US researchers claim that human dermal skin replacement can significantly improve rates for complete healing of diabetic foot ulcers compared with conventional treatments. In this system, human skin cells are seeded on to biodegradable polymer scaffolds. The resulting metabolically active human tissue is applied directly to the wound bed, where epithelialization is promoted. Furthermore, this technique can produce substantial cost savings compared with conventional treatments.

Care and treatment, Complications and side effects, Diabetes, Diabetes mellitus, Varicose ulcer, Varicose ulcers

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Right to life

Article Abstract:

A number of recent cases have highlighted the difficulties involved in establishing when a person's life is no longer worth living. Some medical experts are becoming increasingly concerned that some patients are being incorrectly diagnosed as being in a persistent vegetative state (PVS). This is a rare condition, and most medical staff will therefore have had very little experience of it. Against this background, it is very risky to recommend that feeding be withdrawn.

Diagnosis, Persistent vegetative state

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