August 09, 2020 - In July 2018, a St. Louis jury awarded nearly $4.7 billion ($4.14 billion in punitive damages and $550 million in compensatory damages) to 22 women and their families, after those women claimed asbestos in Johnson & Johnson’s talcum powder contributed to their ovarian cancer. Up until now, the ovarian cancer claims against J & J focused on the talc fibers, rather than asbestos. Of course, Johnson & Johnson appealed the verdict, as they have...

Houston, TX—July 3, 2020—Breaking News: Clients of the Houston Law Firm of Sullo & Sullo obtained an $879 million¹ judgment for the 1996 Khobar Towers Terrorist Attack in Saudi Arabia. The lawsuit was filed in response to the June 25, 1996 bombing of the Khobar Towers apartment complex in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. This apartment complex housed United States military personnel, including the fourteen service-member plaintiffs named in the lawsuit...

June 13, 2020 - Once these fibers—foreign bodies to the body—embed in the ovaries, inflammation occurs. Years and years of this inflammation can...new research, which was presented at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society of Gynecologic Oncology in Honolulu, a scientific team showed a clear link between talc and inflammation in...Most of the evidence which links a woman’s use of talcum powder to an increased risk of developing ovarian cancer...

June 05, 2020 - Factors that have been shown to mildly alter the risk of a woman being diagnosed with ovarian cancer is giving birth, maintaining a healthy weight, and using oral contraceptives. Overall, ovarian cancer is more common among older women, but there are certain types of ovarian cancer that are more common in younger women. Having endometriosis also seems to be a risk factor among women who develop ovarian cancer...

May 27, 2020 - The Link Between Ovarian Cancer and Talcum Powder - If you have recently received a diagnosis of ovarian cancer, you have likely been shaken to the core and have a thousand questions running through your brain. Perhaps you used Johnson & Johnson baby powder with talc for feminine hygiene purposes and are wondering whether your ovarian cancer could be tied to talcum powder. Baby powder ovarian cancer has been in the news for several...