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A group of J&J shareholders has filed a complaint against the company, accusing directors of ignoring warnings signs pertaining to J&J's massive product recalls and government probes of manufacturing defects and marketing practices.

The bad news doesn't end for Johnson & Johnson as FDA inspectors continue to find problems at the Pennsylvania plant that was the source of a massive recall of children's medicines earlier this year.

Was Johnson & Johnson aware of problems with its Children's Tylenol months before the recall? The House Oversight Committee has invited an FDA commissioner and Johnson & Johnson chairman to a hearing next week to address this and other questions surrounding the massive recall of children's medicines earlier this year.

Months after Johnson & Johnson's April recall of 135 million bottles of infant and children's medicines, a congressman today is asking if the company knew about problems earlier and tried to avoid public disclosure by discussing a "phantom recall" of some of the same over-the-counter...

Still in hot water over its "phantom recall" of a Motrin product, Johnson & Johnson looks to expand its share of the vaccine market with purchase of Dutch pharma company Crucell.

In a warning letter to J&J's DePuy Orthopaedics, the FDA says it is illegally marketing its TruMatch CT scanner and Corail Hip System. This is the latest in a series of problems at J&J, which include a big children's Tylenol recall.

After a recall of 40 products earlier this year, Johnson & Johnson's McNeil Consumer Healthcare division now reports that its over-the-counter pain reliever, Tylenol and other medications involved in the recall, are in short supply and will continue to be limited until 2011. The shortage is due...

A House panel will hold a second hearing, postponed until sometime after June 30, to examine the recall of more than 135 million bottles of infant and children's medicines produced by J&J's McNeil Consumer Healthcare unit. This time the boss is expected to show.

It's been about a month since Johnson & Johnson issued the largest-ever recall of children's medicine, but the fallout may be just beginning. Representatives from both J&J and the FDA are scheduled to testify at a May 27 congressional hearing as lawmakers remain concerned about how the recall was handled.

Parents: Check your medicine cabinets. Tylenol is quietly recalling batches of children and infant Tylenol liquid made between April 2008 and June 2008 after bacteria was found in one of the raw materials used to make the product. McNeil Consumer Healthcare, the subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson...