{"id":16055,"date":"2017-05-09T22:16:02","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T12:16:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=16055"},"modified":"2024-07-01T01:21:41","modified_gmt":"2024-06-30T15:21:41","slug":"johnson-johnson-ordered-to-pay-110-million-to-woman-who-developed-cancer-from-using-their-talc-baby-powder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=16055","title":{"rendered":"Johnson &amp; Johnson ordered to pay $110 million to woman who developed cancer from using their talc baby powder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Baby-Powder.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-16056\" src=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Baby-Powder-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"Baby-Powder\" width=\"770\" height=\"434\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nLois Slemp, who resides in the state of Virginia, developed ovarian cancer from her near-daily use of Johnson &amp; Johnson\u2019s baby powder and their Shower To Shower product \u2014 both of which contain talc Recently, a St. Louis court ruled in favor of Slemp, and awarded her a record-setting $110.5 million&#8230; &#8230;Sadly, Slemp is not the only person to be harmed by the company\u2019s baby powder or other talc-containing products. Three other St. Louis juries have awarded a total of $197 million in damages to plaintiffs with similar complaints&#8230; &#8230;Despite Johnson and Johnson\u2019s claim to fame as \u201cthe world\u2019s largest healthcare group,\u201d lawyers say that the corporation failed to accurately warn consumers about the risks posed by the talc in their products. In fact, the company has faced thousands of lawsuits for allegedly ignoring studies that linked its baby powder and Shower To Shower products with ovarian cancer.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/2017-05-07-johnson-johnson-ordered-to-pay-110-million-to-woman-who-developed-cancer-from-baby-powder.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">http:\/\/www.naturalnews.com\/2017-05-07-johnson-johnson-ordered-to-pay-110-million-to-woman-who-developed-cancer-from-baby-powder.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lois Slemp, who resides in the state of Virginia, developed ovarian cancer from her near-daily use of Johnson &amp; Johnson\u2019s baby powder and their Shower To Shower product \u2014 both of which contain talc Recently, a St. Louis court ruled in favor of Slemp, and awarded her a record-setting $110.5 million&#8230; &#8230;Sadly, Slemp is not &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=16055\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Johnson &amp; Johnson ordered to pay $110 million to woman who developed cancer from using their talc baby powder&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16055","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16055","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16055"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16055\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":52206,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16055\/revisions\/52206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16055"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16055"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16055"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}