The family of Mae Moore, a California resident who died at age 88 in 2021, sued the company the same year, claiming J&J's talc baby powder products contained asbestos fibers that caused her rare cancer. The jury late on Monday ordered J&J to pay $16 million in compensatory damages and $950 million in punitive damages, according to court filings.

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[–] 54 points 1 year ago (4 children)

I had a pleurodesis (that's where your lung collapses several times so they glue it to your ribcage with scar tissue to keep it upright) and they offered me a choice of talc, where they blow in the talc powder to create the scar tissue, or mechanical, where they stick a spiked rod in and abrade you from the inside out.

Despite how unpleasant the latter sounded, my surgeon all but insisted I not go talc, he said I would thank him later.

Oh, god I do.

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago (3 children)

    Our medical technology these days is miraculous in many ways. Then there are knee replacements and this body horror tale.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    It gets worse but the moral is, don't collapse your lung. I wish someone had told me.

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