The Incubator
The Incubator
Ben Courchia & Daphna Yasova Barbeau
#453 - [Journal Club] - 📌 What Happened to NEC When Centers Stopped Using Probiotics?
17 minutes Posted Jul 16, 2026 at 6:00 am.
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Send us Fan Mail When the FDA warning landed in late 2023, probiotic use in high-use NICUs collapsed from 86% to under 7% almost overnight. What happened to NEC? This week Daphna brings Tolia and Patel's new Journal of Perinatology analysis of the Pediatrix Clinical Data Warehouse, a natural experiment across 347 NICUs and more than 10,000 extremely preterm infants. Centers that stopped saw NEC climb from 2.7% to 4.4%. Centers that never used probiotics saw nothing change. Ben and Daphna work...