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“I’m a mom who makes products for babies": Meet 4 Johnson & Johnson safety scientists

Who’s more invested in kids’ safety than parents? No one. That’s what makes these women such powerhouses: They use their maternal instincts and insight to ensure the products they develop are good enough to use on their own kids.

4 Truths People Living with Psoriasis Want Everyone to Know

We asked people living with psoriasis—including Scandal actress Katie Lowes—to tell us what they wish the world knew about the autoimmune disorder in time for Psoriasis Awareness Month.

From injury to athlete: 3 inspiring stories of surgical recovery

Who says undergoing a surgical procedure has to be discouraging? These patients found the opposite to be true—their experiences only fired up their competitive spirits.

“I designed my knee replacement": Meet the Johnson & Johnson employee who benefited from his own innovation

For Dan Rumple, a product designer at DePuy Synthes, being active was a way of life—until knee pain made it impossible to even walk. Turns out, it was the very medical device that he’d been working on that would help get him back on his feet.

6 Johnson & Johnson employees share how parental leave helped them embrace parenthood

Welcoming a baby is, to say the least, life-changing. To help with the transition, the company offers generous extended parental leave—which it’s expanding even more in 2017.

Meet the man who oversees the making of millions of contact lenses

Barry O’Sullivan heads up Johnson & Johnson’s Visioncare plant in Ireland, which manufactures a global supply of Acuvue® contact lenses—a product that first hit the market 30 years ago. Here’s what it’s like to oversee such a bustling business.

“Johnson & Johnson’s parental benefits helped me become a mom": An employee shares her adoption journey

The company’s expanded parental leave, adoption, surrogacy and fertility benefits are helping people build and nurture their families—people like Aubrey Martina and her “Christmas miracle baby,” Noelle.

“I have schizophrenia": What it’s really like to live with the mental illness

For Mental Health Awareness Month, Tanara, who was diagnosed at the age of 27, shares her very honest story of coping with the disease.

7 health advocates who are determined to change what it means to have a chronic illness

Living with a life-altering disease is undeniably challenging. But it can also be full of triumphs if you embrace one simple mantra: It’s just a bad day, not a bad life.

“We had bariatric surgery": a couple shares what it’s really like to undergo the weight-loss procedure”

Meet Stephen and Zohar, who elected to have bariatric surgery together and are now embracing their healthier—and combined 162-pounds-lighter—life.