Published: 27 March 2017 Researchers at the University of Southampton and the University of Oxford are to study which milk feeds could help protect premature babies from a life-threatening bowel condition called necrotising enterocolitis (NEC). The year-long study has been made possible with a grant of £26,262 from children's charity Action Medical Research. The research will involve analysing data on the feeding patterns and type of milk given to more than 400 premature babies. More than 61,000 babies are born prematurely in the UK each year and, sadly, NEC is a significant cause of suffering and death in babies who are born too soon. Up to one in 20 babies in neonatal units...
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