GREENFIELD — Hancock Health conducted a ribbon cutting Tuesday for a new Milk Express site at Hancock Regional Hospital, where families can obtain donated pasteurized human milk for young ones.

The need for human milk is critical because growth velocity in this population can be slow; at discharge more than half of ...

Shortly after giving birth at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Meredith Alley found herself visiting her son, Graham, in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). He had arrived earlier than ...

One in 27 first-time mothers in the U.S. reported feeding their infants shared human milk, including from friends, family, and other informal milk-sharing networks. There were 6.1% who reported ...