The Johnson & Johnson talc litigation is often discussed as a single mass tort. In practice, it functions as two.

The case, which opened in the High Court on Wednesday, originally involved 3,000 claimants and is set to become the largest product liability case in UK history.

Sprinkling the fine, sweet-smelling white powder over their freshly bathed baby’s bottom was, for many mothers, one of the ...

Johnson & Johnson has been ordered to pay $4.7bn (£3.6bn) in damages to 22 women who claim that asbestos in the pharmaceutical giant’s talcum powder products caused them to develop ovarian cancer.

Johnson & Johnson lost a second lawsuit Tuesday when a Missouri jury ordered the company to pay $55 million to a woman who said the company's talcum-powder products caused her ovarian cancer.

In 2019, Johnson & Johnson, the makers of the most popular brand of baby powder, faced over 14,000 lawsuits, some claiming its association with increased risk of ovarian cancer, and some claiming its ...

In a recent “In The Shop” column in Farm Journal Magazine I made brief mention of using cooking flour or talcum powder to identify the exact location of small fluid leaks on farm equipment. At first ...

Editor’s Note: Ford Vox is a physician specializing in rehabilitation medicine and a journalist. He is a medical analyst for NPR station WABE-FM 90.1 in Atlanta. He writes frequently for CNN Opinion.