The Whitfield family legal case was just one of many still pending relating to the necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) disease.

The ruling by a Missouri state court jury is a rare legal win for Abbott Laboratories, maker of Similac formula, and Reckitt, which owns Enfamil ... that preterm infant nutrition products are ...

Mead Johnson had already been ordered to pay $60m in damages in March to Jasmine Watson, the mother whose baby died after being fed the company’s Enfamil Premature 24 brand of formula.

"The decision reinforces what we, the medical community and regulatory bodies have said: that preterm infant nutrition products ... the company’s Enfamil baby formula. The verdict sent Reckitt ...

Abbott makes Similac, and Enfamil ... nutrition products can provide essential, lifesaving nutrition." The lawsuit alleged that doctors at St. Louis Children's Hospital gave the infant formula ...

Abbott Laboratories and a unit of Reckitt Benckiser Group Plc were cleared by a jury over claims they hid risks their premature-infant ... s Similac formula and Reckitt’s Enfamil in a single ...

"The decision reinforces what we, the medical community and regulatory bodies have said: that preterm infant nutrition products ... societal support of infant formula, we think its prudent to ...

Iron is an essential component fostering healthy infant growth and development. It plays a key role in producing hemoglobin, a protein contained in red blood cells, that is responsible for ...

Closing arguments are expected to begin on Wednesday. The judge oversaw a previous infant formula trial in which a St. Louis jury hit Abbott with a $495 million verdict on July 26. A Missouri ...