J&J Talc Unit Loses Libel Suit Over Flawed Cancer Study
By Dorothy Atkins ( August 20, 2026, 9:19 PM EDT) -- A Virginia federal judge handed three doctors a win Wednesday in a Johnson & Johnson subsidiary's libel lawsuit over a 2020 study linking cosmetic talc exposure to mesothelioma, finding the subsidiary's evidence didn't show the trio knowingly or recklessly published falsehoods and instead merely revealed the doctors' "fear of litigation."...
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