Most moderate-to-late–preterm infants need nutritional support until they are feeding exclusively on their mother’s breast milk. Evidence to guide nutrition strategies for these infants is lacking. We ...

Preterm infants face unique challenges in achieving optimal growth and neurodevelopment compared to term‐born peers. Nutritional strategies in the neonatal period are integral to promoting adequate ...

Which factors most influence the risk of stunting in premature infants? The graph shows which factors (clinical and nutritional) had the greatest impact on the AI model's predictions. Positive values ...

November is Prematurity Awareness Month, a time to celebrate the progress that has been made for premature babies nationwide. These are some of the smallest, most fragile patients. And one of the ...

Parenteral nutrition (PN)-associated cholestasis (PNAC) is frequently diagnosed in premature infants; however, not all PN-exposed infants develop PNAC. We propose that, in premature infants receiving ...

A large-scale survey of published studies associatesd probiotics with a favorable benefit-to-risk ratio for prevention of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) although it did not rule out a small risk of ...

A landmark international study conducted by UNC Greensboro researchers has found "significant variations" in the nutritional composition of donor human milk across five countries. The findings could ...

More than one in 10 infants worldwide are born preterm, many with complications: Nearly 1 million die each year. This is the single largest cause of death in children around the world before their ...