The family of a woman who developed a brain tumor as a teenager is fighting in the 11th Circuit to resurrect their claims that the fatal cancer was caused by exposure to radioactive compounds from a Pratt & Whitney plant near her childhood home.
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German chemicals and pharmaceutical giant Bayer has settled a court case involving its weed-killer Roundup, a flagship product of its U.S. subsidiary Monsanto, a spokesman said Tuesday.
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As coronavirus infections in the U.S. continue to climb, Americans can take solace in a Thursday report by the National Institutes of Health that says the death rates of another well-known disease are in steady decline.
Read moreThe Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine sued California’s governor and several of its science agencies for refusing to place carcinogenic processed meat such as hot dogs and bacon on its Proposition 65 list to warn the public, in Sacramento County Court.
Read moreSorrento Therapeutics accuses scientist/L.A. Times owner Patrick Soon-Shiong of fraud in his “catch and kill” acquisition of a cancer drug, in L.A. Superior Court.
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Surgeons at King’s College Hospital in London removed a brain tumor from a woman who played the violin during the procedure.
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Right-wing radio shock jock Rush Limbaugh says he’s been diagnosed with advanced lung cancer.
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As Johnson & Johnson fights a tide of multimillion-dollar verdicts for women who say baby powder gave them ovarian cancer, the government published a study Tuesday that shows no strong association between the two.
Read moreA suit against Northrop Grumman brought by a family that claims hazardous materials from the company’s manufacturing facility in Bethpage, New York, contaminated soil and water in the area may continue, a federal court in the state ruled. All three family members were diagnosed with cancer between 2015 and 2017.
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It’s no sci-fi surgery robot, but brain cancer patients could soon find themselves in the operating room with an electronic doctor.
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A computer program can identify breast cancer from routine scans with greater accuracy than human experts, researchers said in what they hoped could prove a breakthrough in the fight against the global killer.
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As a civil rights activist at 25, John Lewis was beaten so badly his skull was fractured. As a congressman today at 79, Lewis is facing a foe like none before: advanced pancreatic cancer.
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Doctors on Wednesday reported unusually good results from tests of two experimental drugs in women with an aggressive form of breast cancer that had spread widely and resisted many previous treatments.
Read moreA federal class action claims Union Carbide’s reckless emissions of carcinogenic ethylene oxide from its plant in Institute, W. Va., exposed nearby residents to cancer risks 11 times the national average.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit ruled that a putative class of patients and third-party payers of health and welfare benefits have satisfied RICO’s proximate cause requirement in their suit claiming pharmaceutical companies refused to inform the public that the drug Actos increased a patient’s risk of bladder cancer.
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A federal judge Thursday denied Monsanto’s bid to dismiss a lawsuit seeking payment from the company to clean up cancer-causing chemicals from Los Angeles County waterways and storm sewer pipelines.
Read moreA new blood test could detect breast cancer up to five years before clinical signs arise by observing how the immune system responds to substances produced by tumor cells, a science research team announced Saturday.
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