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.

A St. Louis judge has granted a motion for 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 ...

Researchers say they found that infection with a common virus that can be transmitted from mother to fetus before birth significantly worsens an often-fatal complication of premature birth called ...

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

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

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 ...

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

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

"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 ...