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...company as a whole doubtless will survive and even prosper. Johnson & Johnson makes all manner of sanitary products that have become consumer bywords. Among them: Band-Aids, Stayfree maxi-pads, Ortho-Novum oral contraceptives, many baby products. Tylenol accounted for only $400 million of the company's 1981 sales of nearly $5.4 billion, which ranked J&J No. 68 on the FORTUNE 500 list of the largest U.S. industrial companies. Some Wall Street analysts now guess that the expense of recalling all Tylenol capsules will cause the company to report a loss for the current quarter, but add that...
...many established companies to make such a confession. In recent months, for instance, Sandoz Pharmaceuticals has retracted some of its claims for its trademarked tranquilizer Serentil. Marion Laboratories has acknowledged that Triten is chemically similar to at least one antihistamine. Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp. has conceded that its Ortho-Novum 1/50-21 contains no less estrogen and is in no way superior to other contraceptives with similar ingredients. All told, 15 companies, including most of the country's major drug manufacturers have publicly admitted errors in advertising 23 out of the thousands of drugs on sale. On 33 other occasions...
...Novum Ovum...
...prologue, Hubley celebrates man's capacity to know-and to know that he knows. In five principal chapters (Space, Time, Matter, Energy, Life), he expounds the physical universe as man has come to know it. And in an epilogue, he imagines where man stands in the novum organum: a puzzled inflection of star stuff, a mote of mind that glitters for a moment on the grand galactic stream...
...length of time that a woman can continue taking the pills safely is still uncertain. FDA has set the recommended limit for Enovid and Ortho-Novum at four years, and of Enovid-E at three years, though it is holding the newest pills to two years for the present. There has been some speculation that long-term use of the pills might postpone the menopause and leave women fertile far beyond nature's normal age limit of 45 to 50. But women who were nearing the menopause when they started on the pills several years ago have since...