Diagnosis of the BRCA1 mutation — a gene that substantially limits normal cell growth and increases the risk of breast cancer — could be considered a disability under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Sixth Circuit ruled. The court revived disability discrimination claims against a day care brought by a former employee who was fired after having a double mastectomy.
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BayerAG will pay $10 billion to resolve a raft of litigation over its herbicides, including claims that its popular weed killer Roundup causes cancer.
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A Missouri appeals court on Tuesday upheld a jury verdict against Johnson & Johnson over damages caused by its talcum powder products, but reduced the award from $4.7 billion to $2.1 billion.
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A federal judge on Monday permanently barred the state of California from requiring Monsanto and other chemical companies to put cancer warning labels on the glyphosate, the active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup.
Read moreAn appeals court in California affirmed the denial of a petition seeking to remove diisononyl phthalate from the state’s list of carcinogenic chemicals. The chemical is used to “soften vinyl for use in flooring, wire insulation, gloves, garden hoses, artificial leather, and roofing material.”
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Three appellate justices seem disinclined to overturn a jury verdict that found the popular weed killer Roundup caused a Bay Area man’s lymphoma, but one questioned whether a prodigious damages award against the manufacturer should stand.
Read moreThe 10th Circuit reversed a ruling in favor of biotech company Genentech in a dispute over the breast cancer drug Herceptin. Cancer treatment providers who purchased multi-dose vials of the drug claim the company failed to ensure each vial contained the labeled amount of the active ingredient.
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Johnson & Johnson is ending sales of its talc-based Johnson’s Baby Powder in the United States and Canada, where demand has dwindled amid thousands of lawsuits claiming it has caused cancer.
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Cancer deaths have dropped more in states that expanded Medicaid coverage under the Affordable Care Act than in states that did not, new research reveals.
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For the first time, a blood test has been shown to help detect many types of cancer in a study of thousands of people with no history or symptoms of the disease.
Read morePharmaceutical giants Pfizer and Eli Lilly on Wednesday defeated a multidistrict class action seeking billions of dollars in damages over claims that Viagra and Cialis cause skin cancer.
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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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