Cutting-edge discovery points to potential treatment for NEC in preemies

(Ann& Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago) Cutting-edge discovery in the lab of Catherine Hunter, MD, from Stanley Manne Children's Research Institute at Ann& Robert H. Lurie Children's Hospital of Chicago offers a new direction toward treatment of necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) -- a devastating intestinal emergency that occurs in up to 10 percent of premature infants.
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