The Supreme Court refused Tuesday to reinstate a Swiss pharmaceutical company’s patent for anti-nausea medication for chemotherapy patients, finding that patents can’t be issued for inventions that have already been offered for sale.
Read moreEnvironmental groups and Louisiana residents of a rural, majority-black area on the Mississippi River filed a records request Monday seeking answers to why St. James Parish officials “basically changed the black district into the petrochemical district.”
Read moreA Florida appeals court upheld a $21 million award against R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co., to the daughter and widow of a man who died of lung cancer.
Read moreA spokeswoman for the Supreme Court indicated Sunday that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg has returned to work from the New York hospital where she had cancerous growths removed from her lungs.
Read moreJustice Ruth Bader Ginsburg underwent surgery Friday to remove two cancerous growths in her left lung, a U.S. Supreme Court spokeswoman said this morning.
Read moreShedding new light on old research about how young pregnancy can reduce a woman’s risk of breast cancer, the National Institute of Health reported Friday that such benefits do not appear to kick for several decades.
Read moreA federal judge on Thursday said he will likely reject a request to disqualify a science expert hired by Eli Lilly to debunk claims that Viagra and Cialis cause skin cancer, but questions about the scientist’s credibility still linger.
Read moreThe European Court of Justice refused to stand in the way Wednesday of Italy’s reimbursement of the cancer drug Avastin for an off-label use: the treatment of age-related macular degeneration.
Read moreA California judge on Thursday approved a sick San Francisco Bay Area couple’s request to fast-track a trial on claims Monsanto’s popular weed killer Roundup caused their cancers.
Read moreA California judge on Wednesday declined to rule on whether an elderly couple can take Monsanto to court early next year over claims the Roundup weed killer caused their cancers, despite tentatively denying the San Francisco Bay Area couple’s request.
Read moreA federal judge on Tuesday dismissed all but one defamation claims brought by an Ohio State University cancer researcher related to a New York Times article that provoked online readers to roast him in the comments section by calling him a “con man,” “crook” and a “cockroach.”
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Investors hit Nektar Therapeutics with a class action after its lead clinical-stage drug failed to achieve results touted by the
Read moreThere was a sigh of relief after police recovered a giant inflatable colon that is used to teach about the dangers of colon cancer.
Read moreLegal experts disagree about what will happen in the wake of a California judge unexpectedly upholding part of a $289 million verdict against Monsanto after a jury found Roundup caused a school groundskeeper’s terminal cancer.
Read moreSAN FRANCISCO (CN) – Although she refused to overturn a jury verdict against Monsanto finding its weed killer Roundup caused
Read moreTwo jurors who voted to hold Monsanto liable for a man’s fatal cancer from using the weed killer Roundup called a California judge’s intention to gut the $289 million verdict “unreasonable” Thursday, and rejected criticism they had been emotionally manipulated into making the finding without evidence.
Read moreA Ninth Circuit panel gave little indication Tuesday whether it will revive a proposed class action accusing Facebook of spying on cancer sufferers to target them with medical advertising.
Read moreA California judge signaled Wednesday she would vacate a $250 million punitive damages award against Monsanto, handed down by a jury that found the agrochemical company knew its popular Roundup weed killer causes cancer but deliberately failed to tell a school groundskeeper dying of lymphoma.
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