The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Wednesday proposed new changes to labels on drugs prescribed to pregnant and breast-feeding women.

If enacted, the new system would replace a 30-year-old system for classifying drugs in favor of labels that provide more detailed information to doctors prescribing the drugs

Children who breast-feed during the first months of life appear to have better verbal IQ than their non-breast fed counterparts, a study has found.

The study that appears in Archives of General Psychiatry tracked nearly 14,000 children born between June 1996 and December 1997 in Belarus. Half of the infants and mothers were assigned to an experimental program designed to promote breast-feeding, while the remaining infants and mothers received regular pediatric and follow-up medical care

The U.S. breastfeeding rate has hit an all time high in the past 20 years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday.

More than three out of four new moms now breast-feed their infants, the report said. About 77 percent of new mothers breast feed, at least briefly, up from 60 percent in 1993-1994, a survey found

Most women in Britain feed their babies through bottles and not by breastfeeding. A series of posters hopes to change that.

Best Beginnings, a charity which focuses on promoting breastfeeding, held a poster-making contest for students at the Central St. Martin's School of Art and Design

Sixteen mothers of HIV-infected children here have been infected by the deadly virus, possibly through breastfeeding.

Some 41 toddlers and eight adults were infected with HIV in 2007, allegedly by health workers in the southern Osh region