Article: Drop by drop, demand grows for donated breast milk

Article: Cancer patients rely on breast milk to help relieve ...
San Jose Mercury News (San Jose, CA);  December 29, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... Barbara Feder Ostrov SAN JOSE, Calif. _ Breast milk isn't just for babies ... Mothers' Milk Bank in San Jose, which quietly offers ... prescription. Adult use of breast milk is rare, according ... of the milk bank in San Jose, which has served ...

Article: `BANKED' BREAST MILK BETTER FOR NEWBORNS.(News)
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  June 12, 2006 ;     645 words ... ... their mothers could provide breast milk. Then from April 2005 through ... followed by their own mothers' breast milk. The babies studied weighed ... hospital obtains donated breast milk from a milk ``bank'' in San Jose -- one of only seven in ...

Article: Dad battles insurer over breast milk
Chicago Sun-Times;  December 11, 2002 ;     432 words ... ... road. But because Wesley's breast milk does not come from his own ... reliable source of donated breast milk at a special bank in San Jose. He asked Wesley's pediatrician ... said no on the grounds that breast milk is a food, not covered except ...

Article: This isn't your own mommy's breast milk: Parents ...
Chicago Sun-Times;  April 11, 2006 ;     417 words ... ... more than $25,000 to feed breast milk to her baby. What's free ... to have the benefits of breast milk. So she paid the Mothers' Milk Bank in San Jose $3 an ounce for donated breast milk. That's nearly $100 a ...

Article: Can breast milk help an adult fight off cancer?
The Daily Mail (London, England);  January 17, 2005 ;     700 words ... ... patients are turning to breast milk to help them beat the ... years a milk bank in San Jose, California, has been supplying donated breast milk - meant for low-weight ... which suggested that breast milk could kill cancer cells ...

Article: DONATED BREAST MILK IS GIFT OF LIFE FOR INFANTS
The Columbian;  December 24, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... Columbian 12-24-1998 SAN JOSE, Calif. -- On ... slowly one more, of breast milk. But it didn ... distributed from six breast milk banks across the ... Mothers' Milk Bank in San Jose. Those who use ... s never enough breast milk, and there's ... baggies at the bank ...

Article: Breast-milk clinic confronts criticisms.
The Orange County Register (Santa Ana, Calif.) (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service);  August 7, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... from the sale of human breast milk has breast-feeding ... Mothers' Milk Bank in San Jose, Calif., for sterilizing ... banks, Medo added. The San Jose bank distributed 174,794 ounces of breast milk in 2004, of which 10 ... Women often donate breast milk for ...