This post originally appeared on the Center for Genetics and Society’s website on November 28, 2018. To add your signature, please sign here or email your name and affiliation to info@geneticsandsociety.org . The undersigned individuals and organizations wish to express our dismay and outrage at He Jiankui’s claims of creating...
Month: January 2019
Toxic Breastmilk: When Substance Abuse Relapse Means Death for Baby
posted by: Katherine Drabiak, J.D.
This post originally appeared on the Harvard Law Bill of Health on November 15, 2018.http://blog.petrieflom.law.harvard.edu/2018/11/15/toxic-breastmilk-when-substance-abuse-relapse-means-death-for-baby/ Recently, a nursing mother in Pennsylvania made national headlines when her infant died from ingesting a combination of fatal drugs through breastmilk. According to the coroner’s report, the infant died from a combination...