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Ohio hospital close to establishing state's first breast milk bank.
2004 SEP 2 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- A 3-pound baby boy born prematurely at Grant Medical Center in Columbus, Ohio, lacked the reflexes to nurse from his mother, who was also struggling to produce milk.
Little Tristan Casto needed the enzymes and hormones found only in human milk to ward off infection and to grow bigger and healthier. The hospital had frozen milk shipped from a Texas milk bank, which was fed to Tristan through a stomach tube. He is now healthy, his mother said.
Soon, Grant Medical Center plans to have the state's first milk bank, so milk won't need to be shipped frozen, overnight from other states for babies like Tristan.
The Mothers' Milk Bank of Central Ohio will process, screen and distribute the milk. Besides helping premature babies, doctors say milk banks are also helpful for mothers trying to feed multiples, like twins or triplets.
The practice of donating milk is decades old, but officials said donations declined in the last ...
- Ohio hospital close to establishing state's first breast milk bank.
- Magazine article from: Managed Care Weekly August 30, 2004 700+ words
...boy born prematurely at Grant Medical Center in Columbus...shipped from a Texas milk bank, which was fed to Tristan...mother said. Soon, Grant Medical Center plans to have the state's first milk bank, so milk won't need...
- Local Mothers' Milk Bank puts city in rare company.(Finalist: Community...
- Magazine article from: Indianapolis Business Journal Held, Shari March 12, 2007 700+ words
Indiana Mothers' Milk Bank, Inc. In 2002 while searching the...discovered information about the Mothers' Milk Bank in Austin, Texas, which collects...breast milk. In those situations, a milk bank can be invaluable. "During the planning...
- Makati women donate to breast milk bank.
- Newspaper article from: Philippine Daily Inquirer August 15, 2008 700+ words
...milk to the countrys first community milk bank in Makati City yesterday to help babies...she said in Filipino. The community milk bank is a project of Sen. Pia Cayetano...she told reporters. The community milk bank is the first of its kind in the country...
- National Milk Bank Now Accepting Donations Nationwide.
- Press release article from: PR Newswire December 5, 2005 700+ words
...Calif., Dec. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- National Milk Bank (NMB), the nation's first non-profit virtual...and steady supply of human milk. About National Milk Bank: The National Milk Bank (NMB) is a nationwide, non-profit organization...
- New England Milk Bank voted best small business idea in national ideablob.com*...
- Press release article from: Business Wire February 14, 2008 700+ words
...founder of the Boston-based Mother's Milk Bank of New England, a newly-formed milk bank serving babies, hospitals and families throughout...ideablob community for her idea to create a milk bank that would provide screened and pasteurized...
- Madison, Wis., milk bank would let mothers help others.
- Newspaper article from: WI State Journal (Madison, WI) July 28, 2005 700+ words
...ultimate goal is to establish a full-scale milk bank that would not only collect milk but also...Madison depot will ship the milk to Mothers' Milk Bank of Ohio in Columbus. The Ohio milk bank is one of eight in the country, according...
- Philippines: Philippines' first community Milk Bank launched in Makati.
- News wire article from: Thai Press Reports August 18, 2008 700+ words
...milk to the country's first community milk bank. Senator Pia Cayetano, who led the...donated milk will be transported to the milk bank of Dr. Jose Fabella Memorial Hospital...Olonan, coordinator of the hospital's milk bank, said the beneficiaries of the donated...
- Contamination of a milk bank pasteuriser causing a Pseudomonas aeruginosa...
- Magazine article from: Archives of Disease in Childhood. Fetal and Neonatal Edition Gras-Le Guen, C Lepelletier, D Debillon, T Gournay, V Espaze, E Roze, JC September 1, 2003 700+ words
...environmental sources: a contaminated milk bank pasteuriser and bottle warmer...the causative organism. Finally, the milk bank pasteuriser, used to thaw the bottles...the infants in the unit. Use of this milk bank pasteuriser and bottle warmer was discontinued...
- Manila plans to set up milk bank.
- Newspaper article from: Philippine Daily Inquirer August 5, 2006 700+ words
...IS STUDYING the possibility of setting up a milk bank to collect breast milk for babies whose mothers...local government was thinking of setting up a milk bank at the Ospital ng Maynila. The milk bank will function like a blood bank: lactating...
- Breast Milk Bank Offers Hope for HIV Babies.
- News wire article from: Asia Africa Intelligence Wire November 4, 2003 700+ words
...boosts a baby's immune levels, the founder of the breast milk bank, paediatrics professor Dr Anna Coutsoudis, asked four friends...will and word of mouth, said Royal. Donors to the breast milk bank are not paid. The bank does not always have adequate supplies...
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