Over 1,000 lawsuits have been filed against the nation’s leading baby formula manufacturers, alleging a link between cow milk-based formula and fortifiers for premature infants and an often-fatal ...

A Missouri jury awarded damages following claims related to infant formula and necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), according to ...

A St. Louis judge has granted a new trial in a case Abbott Laboratories won in the fall, in which a mother alleged that the company’s cow’s milk-based products for premature infants contributed to her ...

A judge threw out one the first "bellwether" federal lawsuits against Abbott Laboratories and its competitor, Mead Johnson, over the safety of their preterm baby formulas. U.S. District Court Judge ...

Sepsis and necrotizing enterocolitis can cause major issues for very low-birth-weight infants, but can be combated when they’re fed their own mother’s milk. However, if a mother cannot produce ...

Danielle and Andrew West spent their first month as parents praying their child would live. Their son Owen, born six weeks early in November 2015, developed necrotizing enterocolitis a few days after ...

In a win for Abbott Laboratories, a federal judge in Chicago sided with the company Friday in the case of a woman who alleged that Abbott’s formula for preterm infants led to her daughter’s death. The ...