Caring & giving
“My company makes the medication that helped me fight multiple myeloma”
Paul Reidy, a Johnson & Johnson warehouse technician in Ireland, never imagined that an oncology therapy made at the facility where he works would help save his life.
Meet two Johnson & Johnson nurse educators dedicated to teaching cancer care providers
Jennifer Huff and Jacqui Mellott are two of Johnson & Johnson’s oncology clinical educators—a team of 56 nurses who visit hospitals and infusion centers to help providers understand and stay up to date with treatments.
Giving the gift of sight
In Kenya, around 1.5 million people—including children—contend with visual impairment or blindness. Sight For Kids, Johnson & Johnson’s global eye-care partnership, is devoted to changing these stats, one vision screening at a time.
“The surgical devices I design for Johnson & Johnson can help speed healing and save lives”
Candice Otrembiak’s work combines her love of science with her natural problem-solving skills. The result: high-tech devices that help make medical procedures more efficient for surgeons and safer for patients.
Featured stories
After their husbands were diagnosed with multiple myeloma, these 3 care partners became health equity activists
Kimberly Alexander, Michelle Ware-Ivy and Marsha Calloway-Campbell learned firsthand that Black individuals develop multiple myeloma at higher rates. That’s why they joined Johnson & Johnson’s That’s My Word® health equity campaign, which builds awareness about the disparities surrounding this rare blood cancer.
Terra Kremer, Ph.D., is on a mission to create self-sterilizing surgical tools
Since its launch, Johnson & Johnson has focused on helping make surgeries safer. Learn how this analytical microbiologist and her team are continuing in that tradition with a digital app that aims to change the way medical devices are designed and sterilized.
“Our goal is a solution for every bladder cancer patient”
Meet Christopher Cutie, M.D., the Johnson & Johnson scientist who’s helping change the treatment landscape for people with bladder cancer, the tenth most common cancer in the world.
“My family and I volunteer on a floating hospital that delivers medical care”
Lee-Anne James is a Johnson & Johnson clinical research manager whose home base is Australia. That is, when she and her family aren’t donating their time to Mercy Ships to help treat people who lack access to lifesaving healthcare.
“Lung cancer wasn’t even on my radar. Then I was diagnosed.”
The disease is often detected late—which can have fatal consequences. But thanks to innovations in diagnostic tools, there’s a way to catch lung cancer earlier. Here’s how early detection saved one woman’s life.
