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

Over 1,000 lawsuits have been filed against the nation’s leading baby formula manufacturers, alleging a link between cow milk ...

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 ...

The ruling overturned a previous verdict related to an infant formula case and has implications for both Abbott and Reckitt, ...

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.

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

Reckitt Benckiser’s Mead Johnson unit and Abbott Laboratories have been ordered to face a new trial in the US over ...

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

At six weeks old, Ms. Gill’s daughter developed NEC about 24 hours after she was fed formula. She left the neonatal intensive care unit, or NICU, with extensive bowel and brain damage ...

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 ...