Following a series of quality-related recalls and a plant shutdown, sales and market share for Johnson & Johnson's Tylenol are down by nearly two-thirds from a year ago, Jack Neff reports. The bad publicity surrounding the recall is hurting other J&J brands such as Motrin, Benadryl and Zyrtec with "less equity and possibly less ability to bounce back from the troubles," Neff writes. On the bright side, he points out, whatever PR difficulties J&J is having are being dwarfed by far-bigger corporate mistakes making headlines every day.

If you live in the Northeast and are tempted to fry an egg on the sidewalk on this sweltering morning, you might as well make it the plain ol' white variety mom used to scramble in the electric frying pan. According to a new study by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, just about the only thing that differentiates organic and cage-free eggs from the factory variety is the price tag. The study was not designed to explore the question of which egg-laying conditions are best for the hens themselves. That's obvious. What food technologist Deana Jones wanted to …

Pfizer is now using the same tactics to battle knock-off pharmaceuticals that governments have been deploying in their wars against cocaine traffickers, gun runners and money launderers: pursuing civil lawsuits and asset seizures, Simeon Bennett reports. Make no mistake that the stakes are high. An Interpol officer estimates that $1,000 spent making heroin can earn a return of $20,000 while the same investment in copied medicines can earn as much as $450,000. One case involves a Viagra counterfeiter in the U.K. who has amassed ill-gotten gains such as a farmhouse near Manchester, a £2.5 million flat in Chelsea, …

Elizabeth Olson offers a case study of what happens when a global conglomerate (Coca-Cola) acquires a stake in an earnest start-up (Honest Tea) and then attempts a little arm-twisting. In brief, Seth Goldman's juices and teas made their reputation by using natural sweeteners such as sugar. Coke, which took a 40% interest in Honest Tea in 2008 and has an option to buy the rest in 2011, took umbrage at a phrase on the packaging of the company's Honest Kids' line: "no high-fructose corn syrup." Some of Coke's products contained the controversial factory-produced syrup, of course. "We got …

Once upon a time in America, in an era known as the Age of the McMansion, consumers filled their not-so-humble abodes and land masses with all sorts of goods and products, from supersized containers of soda pop to massive pieces of exercise equipment to automobiles that could accommodate home theaters in the rear cabin. Now, Jane Hodges informs us, we have entered a new epoch where young people are fleeing the 'burbs of their youth to establish affordable urban homes of their own that average out to about 500 square feet. "For Gen Y, the home is a place …