Johnson & Johnson
Johnson & Johnson ordered to pay $1.04 bn over faulty hip implants
02 Dec 2016
In lawsuits that were combined in a trial, the federal jury concluding that J&J misled patients and their doctors about the safety of the Pinnacle hip implant
J&J loses third lawsuit over talcum powder link to ovarian cancer
29 Oct 2016
Johnson & Johnson, which is facing over 1,700 lawsuits in state and federal courts over ignoring studies linking its baby powder and Shower-to-Shower talc products to ovarian cancer, has been asked to pay a California woman more than $70 million in damages
J&J warns of hack flaw in insulin pump, calls risk ‘extremely low’
06 Oct 2016
Johnson & Johnson is warning patients that it has learned of a security vulnerability in one of its insulin pumps that a hacker could exploit to overdose diabetic patients with insulin
J&J must pay $72 mn damages in talc case
25 Feb 2016
J&J accepts $4 bn bid from Carlyle for its ortho-clinical diagnostics business
01 Apr 2014
Johnson & Johnson's ortho-clinical diagnostics unit was created in 1994 when it acquired the clinical diagnostics division of Eastman Kodak and formed Johnson & Johnson Clinical Diagnostics, which was then merged in 1997 with Ortho Diagnostic Systems
J&J to sell Ortho Clinical Diagnostics unit to Carlyle for $4.15 bn
17 Jan 2014
US healthcare major Johnson & Johnson (J&J) yesterday agreed to sell its Ortho Clinical Diagnostics (OCD) unit to private equity firm Carlyle Group for $4.15 billion.
Mis-selling of drugs to cost J&J $2.2 bn in US settlement
05 Nov 2013
The cases, which date from the late 1990s through the early 2000s, involve alleged kickbacks to doctors and pharmacies to promote the antipsychotic drugs Risperdal and Invega, and heart drug Natrecor
PE firms in race for J&J’s Ortho Clinical Diagnostics unit
01 Oct 2013
Private equity firms have tabled preliminary bids for Johnson & Johnson's Ortho Clinical Diagnostics unit, which could fetch the US healthcare major around $5 billion
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