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 ...

Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) is a serious gastrointestinal emergency, particularly for the premature babies who are the individuals primarily at risk for this disease of the intestines. When NEC ...

Parents of premature infants have filed lawsuits against the makers of popular baby formulas Similac and Enfamil. The lawsuits allege cow’s milk-based formulas can result in serious gastrointestinal ...

Attorneys for parents and Abbott Laboratories faced off during opening arguments Monday in the first Chicago trial over Abbott’s formula for prematurely born babies.

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 ...

In infants born to mothers with COVID-19, those who tested positive themselves or had asphyxia were at greater risk for necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), an observational study from Indonesia found. Of ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...