First, a $72 million verdict. Then, one for $55 million. The damages kept climbing: $70 million, $110 million, $417 million. Each time, a different trial, another woman, new jurors, the same story.

For decades, Johnson & Johnson's baby powder was a staple in homes worldwide, a symbol of comfort and care. But behind that soft white dust lies one of the biggest corporate health controversies in ...

The World Health Organization's (WHO) cancer research arm recently classified talc as "probably carcinogenic" for humans. This decision by the International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) has ...

SEATTLE -- Johnson & Johnson and its iconic baby powder have been embroiled in a legal powder keg - some women who used the talc for genital hygiene for decades allege a link between talc and ovarian ...

(CNN) -- After 8 hours of deliberations Thursday, a St. Louis jury awarded $4.69 billion to 22 women who sued pharmaceutical giant Johnson & Johnson alleging their ovarian cancer was caused by using ...

Johnson & Johnson is abandoning a product that it may be most identified with and has been selling for more than 100 years -- talc-based baby powder. Johnson & Johnson is abandoning a product that it ...