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Read moreRunoff from U.S. farms may be causing more than 12,000 cases of cancer per year as Americans drink up nitrate-polluted tap water, according to a new study published Monday in the scientific journal Environmental Research.
Read moreCalifornia officially gave its blessing to coffee Monday, declaring the beverage does not pose a “significant” cancer risk.
Read moreSeventy-four people claim in court that the the diabetes drug Actos from Takeda Pharmaceuticals gave them bladder cancer.
Read moreIn a win for Monsanto following more than $2 billion in cancer-trial losses in California against the company’s popular weed killer Roundup, the federal judge overseeing nationwide litigation over the product said Wednesday Monsanto can choose where upcoming cases will be tried.
Read moreA jury of five women and seven men delivered a devastating blow to agrochemical giant Monsanto on Monday, awarding an elderly couple $1 billion after finding the company failed to warn them about the hazards of the popular weed killer Roundup.
Read moreIn January 2015, Monsanto executive Dan Jenkins wrote an email to a number of his colleagues expressing concern about the International Agency for Research on Cancer’s upcoming review of glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto’s popular weed killer Roundup.
Read moreAt a hearing Tuesday ahead of closing arguments in the third jury trial over whether Monsanto’s best-selling weed killer Roundup causes cancer, the judge in the case urged lawyers for a couple suing for punitive damages to keep the drama to a minimum.
Read moreAlva Pilliod’s lymphoma likely had no known cause, but his singularly abnormal immune system allowed it to flourish, an oncologist testified Monday in the latest trial over whether Monsanto’s top-selling weed killer Roundup causes cancer.
Read moreThe Environmental Protection Agency reaffirmed Tuesday its previous finding that the mostly widely used herbicide in the country does not cause cancer.
Read moreAn industrial hygienist hired by Monsanto faced off Tuesday against the lead attorney for a couple claiming decades of Roundup use contributed significantly to them both developing non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
Read moreoundup did not cause Alberta Pilliod’s cancer and we’ll likely never know what did, a hematologist from the Moffitt Cancer Center in Florida told jurors Monday at the start of Monsanto’s defense against the woman’s claims that the weed killer made her sick.
Read moreA California judge said Thursday that she will likely deny Monsanto’s motion for a decisive victory in a trial where a Livermore couple attribute their cancer to decades of Roundup use.
Read moreWhen she was diagnosed with non-Hodgkin lymphoma in 2015, Alberta Pilliod never thought she would live to celebrate her 75th birthday with her family.
Read moreThe maker of the world’s most popular herbicide could have warned the public about possible cancer risks, but chose not to, a controversial expert witness in a trial over a couple’s claims that Roundup caused their cancers testified Wednesday.
Read moreAs the trial over the world’s most widely used herbicide and its connection to a California couple’s cancer stretches into its third week, their attorney showed the jury more unsealed records showing a cozy relationship between the agrochemical company and U.S. regulators.
Read moreHerbs can lift a bland soup or zest up a quiche, but now researchers say a batch of medicinal plants found on an island in the Indian Ocean have the potential to stop the spread of esophageal cancer.
Read moreMonsanto says it wasn’t concerned about early epidemiological studies showing a possible link between the active compound in Roundup and cancer, but unsealed documents and emails paint a different picture.
Read moreA pathologist who testified in two prior trials over Roundup’s connection to cancer testified Tuesday that years of intense spraying of the world’s most popular weed killer likely caused a Livermore couple’s aggressive lymphoma.
Read moreIn the trial of claims by an elderly couple who say the world’s most popular weed killer gave them cancer, jurors heard of a new study linking Roundup’s active ingredient glyphosate to non-Hodgkins lymphoma.
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