GP, NUI Galway lecturer, breastfeeding advocate and researcher. Mindfulness teacher. Mother to 5 boys. Personal opinions.
Donegal Medical Academy
Joined August 2014
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#Vaccines are vital
So also is #breastfeeding
It's free, safe, taken orally & can prevent > 1 million child deaths per yr
Lancet 94
Could #governments invest as much in the promotion, support & protection of breastfeeding as they do in #vaccines?
@LeoVaradkar @SimonHarrisTD
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ByHeart & Botulism: Serious food safety failings expose online marketing risks
ibfan.org/byheart-botulism/
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HASFF (Health Advocates for Sponsorship- Free Feeding) make an urgent case to end sponsorship of healthcare professional associations by the commercial milk formula industry
“The impact of such sponsorship is to distort education, research and clinical practice in ways that favour earlier, more prolonged formula feeding with more expensive products"
@a_waterston, Adriano Cattaneo, @nicole_bandoapd, Jamie Errico, Laurence Grummer-Strawn
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Mark Sullivan is the CEO of @MedicinesDev, a not-for-profit pharma company. His piece - Rethinking pharmaceutical development: A not-for-profit model to address global health inequities - shows that different models for pharma development are possible.
"A new model is needed to complement the existing model of developing and delivering medicines for diseases where there is little or no market incentive – one that is driven primarily by public health needs and the voices of affected communities."
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I am replying to this survey from Coimisiún na Mean on content of TV & Radio asking them to have a ban on all formula ads (infant, follow & toddler) & more inclusion and visability of breastfeeding
Please consider doing the same and sharing with others
cnam.ie/have-your-say-on-the…
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📣What a day for evidence-based public health nutrition advocacy! 👀Here’s our nutrition officer Jasmine presenting the findings of her narrative review on commercial baby foods
@Uni_Lancashire MAINN conference today. Our position on commercial baby foods & asks below
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📢 healthandagriscience.fra1.qu…
Community Pharmacists Have your Say 🗣️#breastfeeding #research #Pharmacists @missniamhyvix @KateF224 @stabrennan @ucdsnmhs @irishpharmacist @IrishPharmacy@ConefreyPharmac @HSEResearch @KarlFConyard
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This #WorldHealthDay, we stand with mothers and babies everywhere. At UNICEF, we're working to ensure women have access to skilled care before, during, and after childbirth — and that every child is born into a world of opportunity. 💙
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BFLGI has moved to Bluesky. bsky.app/profile/bflgi.bsky.…
See you there friends ♥️
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On #WorldHealthDay, @WHO launches 'Healthy Beginnings, Hopeful Futures,' a theme shared by a new @WeAreTUDublin report revealing major gaps in Ireland’s emergency prep for infant & young child feeding. Funded by @DeptofFHed @hea_irl
#WeAreTUDublin
bit.ly/4i80JdD
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👏🏼to collaborate with @ucdsnmhs @HSELive @ucddublin on a national study 🧐at 🤱🤱🏾knowledge among #primarycare #healthcare #professionals #PLOSONE #openaccess @missniamhyvix @KateF224 @stabrennan @LauraMcHugh12 @Siobhan097 @walter_cullen
Nancy Bhardwaj Anne Pardy @HSEResearch 🎉
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A NATIONAL SURVEY ON BIRTH IN IRELAND: Research report launch. @UCDMidwifery @thelovelymaeve @UCDPerinatal @NPEC_UCC @uccnursmid @TCD_SNM @decdevane @LindaBiesty @MidwifeJulika @MidwiferyNetwrk @sylviamurphyt @MidwiferyD @UL @NMBI_ie @PregnancyLossIE eventbrite.ie/e/a-national-s…
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4. They can listen even when they disagree: people who are emotionally mature have a solid self concept. They know who they are, and can tolerate disagreement. Emotionally immature people feel disagreement is a threat to their own identity.
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I actually had to check that I wasn’t reading an report from the 1970s!! If this happens in Ireland we will have a #boycotttesco and well done to the midwife who walked away . @bflgireland @LizOSullivanPhD @ALCIreland @ColmBurkeTD @stabrennan bmj.com/content/388/bmj.q287…
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Astounding story about @tesco breaking the World Health Organisation’s International Code of Marketing of Breast-Milk Substitutes. with an in-store infant feeding advice service funded by the formula milk firm Danone. 🧵
UK supermarket Tesco is being urged to drop an “unethical” pilot of an in-store infant feeding advice service in which midwives funded by the formula milk firm Danone are expected to wear branded uniforms and undergo training by the company
@rebeccacoombes
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Investing in Breastfeeding: Sustainable Solutions for Global Health.
“Our proposal for considering breastfeeding investments as a carbon offset is founded in the need for full recognition and appropriate measurement of women’s unpaid work” ~@JuliePSmith1
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@stabrennan, strategic health initiatives often pave the way for sustainable economic growth.
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Thailand Bans Advertising for Toddler Milk. Thailand joins three dozen countries that have taken steps to regulate toddler milk ads. The action follows a @propublica @hvogell investigation that detailed how the U.S. helped the industry fight regulation. propublica.org/article/thail…
