Women's Health Grand Rounds

Medications & Herbal Remedies in Breastfeeding Women

Breastfeeding Grand Rounds 1999 sponsored by the NYS Institute for Human Lactation

Program:

• Drugs, Herbs & Breastfeeding

Clinical Lecture by Ruth A. Lawrence, M.D. Author of Breastfeeding: A Guide for the Medical Profession; Professor of Pediatrics, Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Rochester

• Breastfeeding and the Workplace

Public Health Lecture by Mary Applegate, M.D., M.P.H. Medical Director, Bureau of Women’s Health, NYS Department of Health

Objectives:
After viewing the broadcast, participants will be able to:

• Describe the dangers for breastfeeding women in using medications and herbal remedies.
• Describe the public health implications of breastfeeding in the workplace.

Satellite broadcast originally aired May 13, 1999

Major support for this program comes from the NYS Department of Health and the USDHHS Material and Child Health Bureau.