KFF Health News Mar 30 2026 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 Abbott fortifier, a