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 ...

A recent study sheds light on what predisposes premature infants to necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), a deadly intestinal disease. Currently, there are no targeted treatments for NEC because the causes ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Probiotics in low-birth-weight infants reduced necrotizing enterocolitis but not sepsis or mortality. 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 ...

Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is one of the most frustrating diseases we deal with in the neonatal intensive care unit. Since Santulli and colleagues' [1] initial description of 64 cases of NEC ...

Researchers from the Quadram Institute and University of East Anglia have identified what makes some strains of gut bacteria life-threatening in pre-term babies. The findings, now published in the ...

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 ...

PITTSBURGH--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Noveome Biotherapeutics, Inc. today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted Rare Pediatric Disease Designation (RPDD) and Orphan Drug ...