An article published in Gastro Hep Advances by a team of Yale researchers and led by Lauren Smith, MD, hospital resident, finds parental milk and donor human milk support intestinal health and ...

Breastfed very preterm–born children have higher bone mineral density (BMD) at 6 years than their formula-fed peers, while fortification of human milk (HM) after hospital discharge provides no added ...

Worldwide, a majority of babies—approximately 75%—drink infant formula in their first six months of life, either as a sole source of nutrition or as a supplement to breastfeeding. But while formula ...

Early exposure to mother’s own milk (MOM) promotes intestinal barrier maturation in preterm infants. We hypothesized (1) donor human milk (DHM) supplementation reduces intestinal permeability (IP) ...

The NICHD Neonatal Research Network MILK Trial randomized infants born preterm to receive donor milk or preterm formula. We hypothesized that there would be no growth differences at follow-up by study ...

Researchers have programmed the Nicotiana benthamiana plant, a close relative of tobacco, to produce prebiotic sugars found in human breast milk. Charles Andres via wikimedia commons (CC BY-SA 3.0) ...

Over 200 different carbohydrates in human milk help form a composition of nutrients suited for the express purpose of feeding a growing child. Yet roughly 75% of infants around the world don’t get ...

Infants born very preterm (< 32 weeks of gestational age) who were discharged from the hospital on any human milk feeding had significantly lower odds of respiratory hospital admissions during their ...