Study Casts Doubt That Baby Powder Use Raises Risks of Ovarian Cancer January 7, 2020 By Robert Langreth and Jef Feeley A study of more than 250,000 women found that those who used talc or other personal-hygiene powders weren’t significantly more...
J&J Said to Pay More Than $2 Million in Rare Talc Settlement January 7, 2020 By Jef Feeley Johnson & Johnson agreed in the middle of a trial to pay more than $2 million to resolve a woman’s...
Why Big Business Can Count on Courts to Keep its Deadly Secrets December 20, 2019 By Michelle Conlin, Dan Levine and Lisa Girion NEWARK, New Jersey — In the dreary archives of a Newark, New Jersey, courthouse, Ronald Motley found a treasure map....
J&J CEO Spurns U.S. Congressional Hearing on Carcinogens in Talc Products December 10, 2019 By Lisa Girion and Carl O'Donnell Johnson & Johnson Chief Executive Officer Alex Gorsky has declined to appear at a U.S. congressional hearing set for Tuesday...
Powder Keg: FDA Bowed to Industry for Decades as Alarms Were Sounded Over Talc December 3, 2019 By Lisa Girion and Chad Terhune At an invitation-only gathering late last year, U.S. regulators and their guests huddled at a hotel near Washington, D.C., to...
Bausch Yanked Talc From Its Body Powder Months Before J&J Recall November 6, 2019 By Jef Feeley As retailers pull Johnson & Johnson’s recalled talc-based baby powder from their shelves over reports of asbestos contamination, one competitor...
J&J Says New Tests Find no Asbestos in Same Baby Powder Bottle that Sparked Recall October 30, 2019 By Carl O'Donnell and Lisa Girion Johnson & Johnson said on Tuesday that 15 new tests found no asbestos in a bottle of baby powder that...
Walmart, CVS Pulling J&J Baby Powder Off Shelves Amid Recall October 28, 2019 By Jef Feeley Walmart Stores Inc. and CVS Health Corp. are pulling some bottles of Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Powder off store shelves...
J&J CEO Testified Baby Powder was Safe 13 Days Before FDA Bombshell October 23, 2019 By Chad Terhune, Lisa Girion and Mike Spector Facing off against a plaintiff’s lawyer for the first time about Johnson & Johnson’s Baby Powder, the company’s Chief Executive...
J&J Recalls Lot of Baby Powder After Asbestos Trace Found October 18, 2019 By Riley Griffin and Jef Feeley Johnson & Johnson is recalling one lot of its Johnson’s Baby Powder after tiny amounts of asbestos contamination were found...