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Inside the High-Stakes Corporate Fight Over Feeding Preterm Babies
Lawsuits over infant fortifier trials highlight higher metabolic acidosis rates in preterm infants given Mead Johnson’s acidified product, with $555 million in combined judgments under appeal.
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Inside the High-Stakes Corporate Fight Over Feeding Preterm Babies
In 2013, a scientist at Abbott Laboratories saw study results with potentially big implications for the company’s profits and the lives of some of the world’s most fragile people: preterm infants. The upshot, she wrote in an email: Babies fed rival Mead Johnson Nutrition’s acidified liquid human milk fortifier — a nutritional supplement used in neonatal intensive care units — developed certain complications at higher rates than those given an Ab…
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