Johnson & Johnson CEO Bill Weldon will step down in April, the pharmaceutical giant announced Tuesday.
A medicine manufacturer is recalling batches of Motrin pain relievers that were distributed mostly to the United States and the Caribbean.
Johnson & Johnson is recalling yet another batch of Tylenol medicines due to consumer complaints about a musty, moldy smell.
The government takeover of Johnson & Johnson's Tylenol-making factories is a serious step that could further hurt sales of the company's well-known over-the-counter medicines.
The government is taking over three Tylenol plants following a blizzard of drug recalls and a Food and Drug Administration criminal investigation into safety issues at the factories.
Johnson & Johnson said Tuesday that consumers may have to wait until the end of the year before drugstore shelves start to fill up again with its recalled children's Tylenol, Motrin and Bendryl.
Johnson & Johnson's McNeil division announced a recall of certain Tylenol brand products Friday after a review of cleaning procedures at a plant in Fort Washington, Pa.
A multi-state investigation into Johnson & Johnson's handling of drug recalls is under way, CNNMoney has learned.
Oregon has sued Johnson & Johnson for allegedly selling defective Motrin drugs to consumers in the state for more than a year, and for trying to secretly remove the faulty drugs from stores.
Johnson & Johnson is adding 12 million bottles of Mylanta -- the stomach discomfort treatment -- to its ongoing list of recalled products, due to the presence of alcohol that's not listed on the label.
Nearly a year after the Food and Drug Administration ordered Johnson & Johnson's drug-making arm to get its act together, FDA inspectors continue to find problems.
Health-care product giant Johnson & Johnson issued a massive recall of over-the-counter children's medicines on Tuesday, according to company spokeswoman Bonnie Jacobs.
The maker of several over-the-counter drugs, including Tylenol, Motrin and Benadryl, announced a broad-based recall of these and other drugs Friday after receiving complaints of an "unusual moldy, musty or mildew-like" odor.
The maker of several over-the-counter drugs, including Tylenol, Motrin and Benadryl, said Monday that it is taking "corrective actions" at its U.S. plant after some 40 children's versions of those drugs were recalled for quality concerns.
A scathing report released Tuesday by the Food and Drug Administration slammed conditions at the factory that produced the children's Tylenol, Motrin, Benadryl and other over-the-counter drugs that were recalled over the weekend.
The quality and safety violations that led to the shutdown of a Tylenol plant were extremely serious, and could lead to tough action by regulators on drugmaker Johnson & Johnson.
The Food and Drug Administration is looking into reports of at least 775 serious side effects from drugs recalled by McNeil, a division of Johnson & Johnson, according to a source close to a Congressional investigation.
Drugmaker McNeil Consumer Healthcare, currently under investigation by the Food and Drug Administration following a string of recalls related to its over-the-counter drugs including Tylenol, Motrin and Benadryl, outlined steps Tuesday to remedy serious quality and safety lapses at its manufacturing facilities.
A congressional committee is widening its investigation of a drug making arm of Johnson & Johnson to include an attempted 2009 "phantom" recall of Motrin.
Johnson & Johnson, whose drugmaking unit McNeil Consumer Healthcare is under government investigation over a string of drug recalls, failed to meet a Monday deadline to deliver documents related to a 2009 recall of close to 90,000 Motrin tablets.
Five months after Johnson & Johnson drugmaking divison McNeil Consumer Healthcare recalled millions of Tylenol and Motrin products, store shelves across the nation are still bare of these medications.
Government safety inspectors pushed for a recall of popular children's medicines at least three months before a Johnson & Johnson drugmaking unit removed the products from store shelves, according to documents obtained by CNNMoney.
The drug-making arm of Johnson & Johnson said Thursday night it expects delays in replenishing the supply of children's medicines made at a plant it shut in May.
The drugmaking arm of Johnson & Johnson said late Thursday that it is laying off hundreds of workers at the manufacturing plant at the center of a recall of millions of units of children's Tylenol, Motrin and other over-the-counter drugs.
Johnson & Johnson, already under fire from the government over deplorable conditions at a Pennsylvania plant that makes children's pain and cold drugs, is now being cited for problems at another one of its drugmaking plants in the state.
Tylenol, Motrin, Benadryl may come back to drugstores near you, but industry watchers say consumers could permanently banish them from their own medicine cabinets.
Johnson & Johnson, which recalled millions of children's Tylenol products earlier this year, may have known of problems and planned to quietly remove those drugs from store shelves months before the official recall, acccording to documents released by lawmakers Thursday.
Criminal investigations, "phantom" recalls and executive oustings are exposing a dark side of Johnson & Johnson, once considered a pillar of American industry.
As Johnson & Johnson was quietly removing defective Motrin from store shelves, it ignored regulators who said the problems with the drug warranted an official recall, according to documents obtained by CNNMoney.com.
Johnson & Johnson failed to prove that regulators had allowed a clandestine recall of defective Motrin products in 2009, lawmakers said Wednesday.
The Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday warned Johnson & Johnson, CVS and Walgreen to stop making "unproven" claims that their mouthwash products are effective in removing plaque or preventing gum disease.
Lawmakers finally get to grill Johnson & Johnson CEO William Weldon about the circumstances that triggered half a dozen recalls of its popular pain and cold drugs.
After an almost five-month absence from stores, Johnson & Johnson will start shipping some of its recalled over-the-counter children's drugs to retailers next week, CEO William Weldon said in prepared remarks submitted to lawmakers Wednesday.
Johnson & Johnson hasn't exactly been what you would call a good corporate citizen lately. But investors don't seem to mind.
Johnson & Johnson CEO William Weldon delivered both a mea culpa and clear admission to lawmakers Thursday that his company let the public down through numerous recent drug recalls.
The maker of Benadryl and Tylenol has added another popular over-the-counter drug to its growing list of recalled products.
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It was a humiliating moment. Congressman Edolphus Towns was upbraiding a top Johnson & Johnson executive. Certainly Towns (D-N.Y.), the chairman of the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform, has browbeaten his share of CEOs and Wall Street titans. But it's not the sort of thing that usually happens to J&J. At this hearing in May, though, Towns laid into the health care giant. "The information I've seen during the course of our investigation raises questions about the integrity of the company," he boomed. "It paints a picture of a company that is deceptive, dishonest, and has risked the health of many of our children."
Johnson & Johnson is expanding a recall of over-the-counter medicines including Tylenol, Motrin and Benadryl, the company said Thursday.
An FDA official hammered the maker of Tylenol for a pattern of sloppy manufacturing practices that led to a series of recalls in testimony prepared for a House hearing on Thursday.
Lawmakers have scheduled a hearing Thursday to look into the recall of popular pediatric medicines by drugmaker McNeil Consumer Healthcare, which has initiated four recalls of its products in the past seven months.
Dr. Sanjay Gupta says hundreds of major side effects are being probed in connection to drugs recalled by McNeil.
Lawmakers said Wednesday they have launched an investigation into the recent recall of Children's Tylenol, Motrin, Benadryl and other over-the-counter drugs.
A voluntary recall has been issued for more than 40 over-the-counter drugs for children, including Tylenol and Motrin, because they don't meet quality standards.
A voluntary recall has been issued for dozens of over-the-counter drugs for children, including Tylenol and Motrin, because they don't meet quality standards.
Hayli Murphy hears her mother's cell phone ring, and she bounces off the couch to get it. Watching her run around, it's hard to believe that just a few weeks ago, the 9-year-old was heavily sedated in a pediatric intensive care unit, a ventilator doing the job her lungs -- ravaged by H1N1 flu -- could no longer do.
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Over-the-counter painkillers and fever reducers will now carry new labels warning consumers of the potential risks of liver damage and internal bleeding associated with the drugs, according to a final ruling Tuesday by the Food and Drug Administration.
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Kristin Reinhardt still has the green pills in their original packaging, covered with Chinese characters, a souvenir from a 2004 trip to China that left her at the mercy of local medical practices after her travel party was struck with a stomach bug on a riverboat cruise. "I ended up with these Chinese herbs that flat out made me nervous," says the San Diego, California, resident.
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