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Breast best for kids' lungs

(Agencies)
Updated: 2009-01-06 10:14

Breast best for kids' lungs

Children who are breast fed for at least four months may have better lung function than those who are breast fed for shorter periods of time or are bottle fed, a new study suggests. Among 10-year-old children, researchers found greater lung function and capacity in those who were breast fed for four months or longer during infancy.

Tea tree oil's efficacy tested

A new study is investigating whether a tea tree oil body wash can prevent the drug-resistant super bug MRSA in critically ill hospitalized adults. Tea tree oil body wash "may be a simple intervention to prevent MRSA", Bronagh Blackwood from Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland, says.