(WISH) — Almost 400,000 babies are born prematurely every year in the United States. The smaller they are, the more medical problems they can have, including one very dangerous complication that kills ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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) is a debilitating and deadly condition that affects infants who were born preterm. In NEC cases, intestinal tissues become inflamed, and in severe cases there is ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Researchers say they found that infection with a common virus that can be transmitted from mother to fetus before birth significantly worsens an often-fatal complication of premature birth called ...