The study, “Exclusive Human Milk Diets and the Reduction of Necrotizing Enterocolitis,” compared NEC incidence in VLBW infants before and after a neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) switched from a ...

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 ...

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 ...

Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) remains one of the most severe gastrointestinal emergencies affecting preterm infants. It is characterised by inflammation and necrosis of the intestinal wall, with ...

A study published in JAMA Network Open has found that in the US between 1999 and 2020, Black infants disproportionately died from necrotizing enterocolitis compared to White infants, despite overall ...

Using a mouse model of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) -- a potentially fatal condition that causes a premature infant's gut to suddenly die -- researchers at Johns Hopkins say they have uncovered the ...

Use of probiotics in neonatal units was associated with decreased mortality in preterm and low-birth-weight infants. Rates of necrotizing enterocolitis and late-onset sepsis were not different versus ...

Providing human breast milk to preterm infants is a strategy for preventing complications including necrotizing enterocolitis. Because a mother's own milk (considered the gold standard) is not always ...

Cutting-edge discovery in the lab of Catherine Hunter, MD, from Stanley Manne Children's Research Institute at Ann & Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago offers a new direction toward ...

Researchers have discovered a promising direction toward understanding the development of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), a devastating intestinal disease commonly affecting premature infants, in ...

Davis, CA – Mother-daughter duo Jennifer Canvasser and Leslie Napolitano have published Forever Our Little One, a storybook for bereaved families. Jennifer is the executive director of the Necrotizing ...