Breast-Feeding Boost: Fewer Hospitals Handing Out Free Formula

Breast-Feeding Boost: Fewer Hospitals Handing Out Free Formula

Fewer U.S. hospitals send new mothers home with free infant formula, but the overwhelming majority still engage in the practice, to the dismay of breast-feeding proponents, a new survey finds. To determine if the number of hospitals distributing industry-provided formula had changed since her 2007 survey, Anne Merewood of Boston University School of Medicine followed…