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Cost of a month's supply of donor breast milk, an online industry to which women with excess breast milk are increasingly turning to boost their income. (A month's worth of formula costs an average of $200.) The U.S. Food and Drug Administration does not recommend buying breast milk on the open market because of the risk of contamination and disease transmission, but it does recommend buying milk from approved milk banks. [via ABC News]
Subconscious serving-size markers may help people break the fattening pattern of mindless munching.
Long-acting contraceptives like IUDs and implants, which eliminate the potential for human error, are far more effective than more commonly used methods like the Pill, patch and vaginal ring.
Tuberculosis has been brought under control in much of the world, thanks to prevention practices and powerful antibiotics. But in poor nations like Peru, the disease still kills hundreds of babies and children — and new drug-resistant cases threaten an even bigger resurgence.
