Baby powder is a common product used not only on babies, but adults. However, while a classic household item, many do have potential health risks. Here are several brands that have potential links to ...

Johnson & Johnson has been sued by thousands of people who claim their talc-based products caused them cancer, with a single ...

A Maryland jury ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay more than $1.5B in a lawsuit regarding talc in its baby powder.

The maker of a popular baby powder brand expanded a nationwide recall of the product to nearly 42,000 bottles due to the risk they are contaminated with cancer-causing asbestos, according to the US ...

A Los Angeles jury awarded $40 million on Friday to two women who claimed that talcum powder made by Johnson & Johnson caused their ovarian cancer. The giant health care company said it would appeal ...

The $1.5 billion a Baltimore jury awarded to a woman who alleged that Johnson & Johnson’s baby powder caused her cancer “is far from final,” an attorney said.

In 1894, Johnson & Johnson introduced a product made of crushed talc it dubbed "baby powder." For more than a century, people — especially women — used this baby powder as an everyday health and ...

A Los Angeles jury ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay $966 million to the family of a woman who died from mesothelioma, finding the company liable in the latest trial alleging its talc products cause ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has expanded a baby powder recall alert over possible asbestos contamination. In the initial recall posted on Sept. 19, Dynarex Corporation recalled 62 cases of ...

What Alice Salas misses most about her life before her two cancer diagnoses is her hair. On a recent November afternoon, she displays photos of herself at a younger age: full, waist-length locks that ...

A Los Angeles jury has awarded $417 million to a 63-year-old woman who claims her ovarian cancer was caused by her decades-long habit of using Johnson & Johnson's Baby Powder for feminine hygiene. Eva ...

The 37-year-old mom of three said she used the company's baby powder and later developed mesothelioma Charlotte Phillipp is a Weekend Writer-Reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...