With their garish neon signs, fluorescent lighting and shelves stacked with colourful packets, the shops are impossible to ...

WASHINGTON, Dec. 10, 2024 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Today, the American Tort Reform Foundation released its 2024-2025 “Judicial Hellholes®” report, identifying and exposing the nation’s most problematic ...

A Superior Court judge has awarded $7.5 million in punitive damages to the family of an engineer who died of mesothelioma, in ...

Chemical or Pollutant Description Low boiling point naphthas LBPNs are a group of ... It may be used as a body fragrance in self-care products and as an ingredient in pesticides. Talc Talc is a ...

In response Erik Haas, J&J’s worldwide vice president of litigation, said “Johnson & Johnson takes the issue of talc safety incredibly seriously and always has”. Haas added that J&J’s own ...

Hundreds of women in the UK are planning to take on one of the world's biggest pharmaceutical companies over alleged links between talc and cancer. Diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2021 ...

The microscopic appearance of talc and asbestos fibres are dissimilar but they share other characteristics. They're both formed in similar geological conditions and classified as silicate minerals, ...

Once an asbestos fibre is in the lung mesothelium it can remain there for decades, where it will cause microscopic scratches.

Lawyers claim the company “knew for decades” that there was allegedly asbestos present in its talc products, although Johnson & Johnson (J&J) maintains that its baby powder was safe and ...