Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a devastating intestinal inflammatory disease that can affect premature or otherwise medically fragile infants during their first weeks and months of life. Upon ...

May 11, 2007 — Probiotic supplements might reduce the risk of necrotizing enterocolitis in preterm neonates, according to the results of a study reported in the May 12 issue of The Lancet. "Results of ...

STOCKHOLM--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Regulatory News: A retrospective sequential analysis of 311 premature infants, born with a weight below 1000 grams, showed that prophylactic supplementation of ...

Maybe probiotics would have saved my son’s life. I’ll never know because when I asked Micah’s care team to consider probiotics to counter the deluge of antibiotics, I was dismissed as senseless. My ...

The NEC Society, in partnership with Cincinnati Children’s and UNC Children’s, presents the NEC Symposium, the largest conference in the world dedicated to necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC). NEC is a ...

One in two premature babies receives transfusions of red blood cells (RBC) due to anemia. There are no generally accepted clinical guidelines for the degree of anemia necessitating blood transfusions.

A University of Arizona College of Nursing-led research team will use a $1.9 million Department of Health and Human Services grant to lead a nationwide effort to keep babies safe from the deadly ...

DUARTE, Calif., Nov. 12, 2025 /PRNewswire/ -- A landmark systematic review and meta-analysis published in the journal Nutrients has found that an Exclusive Human Milk Diet (EHMD) with Prolacta ...

In a recent study published in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, a group of researchers assessed the strain-specific effects of Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG (LGG) in preterm infants through a ...

Similac baby formula maker Abbott is expected to face a trial on Monday over claims that its formula for preterm infants used in neonatal intensive care units causes a potentially deadly bowel disease ...