The Food and Drug Administration is warning health care providers not to use probiotics containing live bacteria or yeast in preterm infants after the agency began investigating the July death of ...

Human breastmilk has long been considered "liquid gold" among clinicians treating premature infants in ... process in which bacteria secrete digestive enzymes onto nutrients to break them down.

The US Food and Drug Administration is sharing a new warning about the risks of probiotics for hospitalized preterm infants. The products have been linked with over two dozen reported adverse ...

The CEO of Abbott Laboratories defended the company’s infant ... Preterm and low-birth weight babies are at higher risk of developing NEC, potentially because of their immature digestive systems ...

potentially because of their immature digestive systems, according to the National Institutes of Health. Research indicates 15% to 40% of infants with the disease die. The earlier a premature baby ...

New research shows that if doctors wait at least two minutes after the birth to clamp the cord, they significantly improve in-hospital survival rates for premature infants. Delayed cord clamping ...