The decision to allow a new trial could have  implications for both the companies and families with babies born prematurely.

Necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) has widespread implications for neonates. While mostly affecting preterm neonates, full-term neonates, especially those with congenital heart disease, are also at risk.

Kyle Diamantas, a former corporate lawyer, is the new director for the F.D.A. food division, which oversees infant formula.

Parents allege that the specialized, cow’s-milk based products for preterm infants caused their babies to develop NEC and ...

Along with this increased survival of LBW infants, the diagnosis of NEC has also increased. The more immature the infant, the more likely that infant will require surgery. [2,13] Mortality rates ...

"NEC is the most important disease that most people have probably never heard of. The impact of this disease on premature infants and their families is great, and is made worse by the fact that ...

Missouri 22nd Judicial Circuit Court Judge Michael Noble granted the plaintiff's motion for a new trial on Thursday, citing ...

Back in October, a jury found North Chicago-based Abbott and Reckitt’s formula subsidiary Mead Johnson not responsible for a ...

Suspecting a connection between CMV and NEC severity, Hackam and his colleagues developed a neonatal mouse model of NEC with CMV. When they compared the intestines of the rodents with and without ...

It was the third lawsuit to go to trial alleging that cow’s milk-based products for premature infants caused babies to develop NEC — and one of 1,490 lawsuits Abbott now faces in federal and ...