The Agency for Health Care Administration added a new page, Deliveries and Newborns, to its website, FloridaHealthFinder.gov. FloridaHealthFinder.gov is a consumer and researcher health information resource website. The site includes a link to the Think 39 Weeks! Campaign being implemented by the Florida Association of Healthy Start Coalitions, Inc. to educate consumers about the importance… Read More

Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi released the Final Report of her Statewide Task Force on Prescription Drug Abuse and Newborns. The report contains 15 recommendations for prevention, intervention, best practices and treatment for protecting babies from prescription drug abuse. The Statewide Task Force on Prescription Drug Abuse and Newborns, which includes representatives from Healthy Start… Read More

It’s one month into New Years resolutions of weight loss and a week past National Healthy Weight Week and the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine has a reminder for new moms: breastfeeding can provide the foundation for healthy weight — for both you and your baby. In a release from the Academy, they also identify obstacles that… Read More

Mother-to-infant HIV transmission by  breast milk is more common in women who become infected late in their pregnancy or during lactation, according to a policy statement published by the Committee on Pediatric AIDS in Pediatrics, the American Academy of Pediatric’s official journal. One study showed the risk of  HIV transmission from breast milk was only… Read More

Despite one of the highest perinatal HIV exposure rates in the state, no HIV-infected babies were born in Northeast Florida in 2012, according to preliminary data from the Florida Department of Health, HIV Prevention Section. More than 54 babies — 46 of them in Jacksonville — were born to HIV+ mothers last year.  The five-county… Read More