Probiotics may be ancient history but human awareness of them is frightfully nascent. A look back only a few decades shows just how green our grasp remains. Every two years in Rome, Italy since 1999, a throng of physicians, nutritionists, and microbiologists gathers along with industry leaders as well as consumers and regulators to discuss “Probiotics, […]
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One Pediatrician Talks Probiotics
Should pediatric infectious disease physicians be using probiotics? This question is pondered by Joan L Robinson, a physician at University of Alberta and Stollery Children’s Hospital in Canada writing in a recent issue of The Canadian Journal of Infectious Disease and Medical Microbiology. The author describes the many reasons probiotics are believed to work as […]