{"id":6325,"date":"2016-01-19T15:38:04","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T15:38:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medclinicsllc.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/19\/jj-to-cut-3000-jobs-in-medical-devices-division\/"},"modified":"2016-01-19T15:38:04","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T15:38:04","slug":"jj-to-cut-3000-jobs-in-medical-devices-division","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/2016\/01\/19\/jj-to-cut-3000-jobs-in-medical-devices-division\/","title":{"rendered":"J&amp;J to cut 3,000 jobs in medical devices division"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.yahoo.com\/johnson-johnson-cuts-medical-device-division-workforce-4-120108158--finance.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/medclinicsllc.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2016-01-19T124226Z_2_LYNXNPEC0I0MN_RTROPTP_2_JOHNSONANDJOHNSON.jpg\" width=\"130\" height=\"86\" alt=\"A first aid kit made by Johnson &amp; Johnson for sale on a store shelf in Westminster\" align=\"left\" title=\"A first aid kit made by Johnson &amp; Johnson for sale on a store shelf in Westminster\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>(Reuters) &#8211; Healthcare conglomerate Johnson &amp; Johnson said it would cut about 3,000 jobs within its medical devices division, or between 4 percent and 6 percent of the unit&#8217;s global workforce, over the next two years. Leerink analysts said the announcement meant that an acquisition was still on the cards for J&amp;J, given that it had about $37 billion in cash as of the end of the third quarter. &#8220;We continue to believe JNJ is an active acquirer with a focus likely heavily weighted toward it&#8217;s lagging Medical Devices business&#8230;it&#8217;s a matter of when, not if, JNJ does a deal&#8221;, they wrote in a note.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Reuters) &#8211; Healthcare conglomerate Johnson &amp; Johnson said it would cut about 3,000 jobs within its medical devices division, or between 4 percent and 6 percent of the unit&#8217;s global workforce, over the next two years. Leerink analysts said the announcement meant that an acquisition was still on the cards for J&amp;J, given that it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6326,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[23,33,67,80,81,82,85],"class_list":["post-6325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weight-management","tag-diet","tag-hcg","tag-phentermine","tag-weight","tag-weight-clinic","tag-weight-loss","tag-weight-managenemt"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/2016-01-19T124226Z_2_LYNXNPEC0I0MN_RTROPTP_2_JOHNSONANDJOHNSON.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6325\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6326"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stuff2host.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}