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How to Support Breastfeeding at Conferences and Testing Centers

By Emily Cleveland Manchanda, MD, MPH; Lara D. Vogel, MD, MBA; and Shada A. Rouhani, MD, MPH | on February 18, 2020 | 0 Comment
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Dr. Manchanda is in the department of emergency medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School in Boston.

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Dr. Vogel is an attending physician in the department of emergency medicine at North Shore Medical Center in Salem, Massachusetts.

Dr. Rouhani is in the department of emergency medicine at Brigham and Women’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School.

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