A study published in JAMA Network Open has found that in the US between 1999 and 2020, Black infants disproportionately died from necrotizing enterocolitis compared to White infants, despite overall improvements in the rates of death from the disease.
US Patent 11,493,515 will be issued to LSU Health New Orleans on November 8, 2022, for a noninvasive test that more accurately diagnoses a potentially fatal condition in premature infants.
Linseigh Green was just 2-weeks-old when she was diagnosed with a life-threatening intestinal disease, known as necrotizing enterocolitis, or NEC. Today, the Johns Creek woman is 25 and working on her second master's degree in England.