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Facing 10,000 plus glyphosate-cancer lawsuits, Bayer enters court-ordered mediation with next plaintiff
Bayer said on [April 12] it would comply with a U.S. federal judge’s order to enter mediation with a plaintiff ...
‘Wildly popular’ and unproven probiotics may interfere with some treatments
Probiotics are wildly popular. After all, the microbial cocktails are available over the counter and have been shown to be ...
Can genetic tests predict our cancer risk?
The [UK] health secretary, Matt Hancock, [recently] shared his shock at discovering that he is at greater than average risk for ...
New CDC glyphosate report: “Most studies found no association between exposure to glyphosate-based products and risk of cancer”
A new [Centers for Disease Control and Prevention] report on glyphosate’s toxicological effects likely will play a role in the ongoing ...
Can CAR-T cell therapy tackle solid tumors too?
Last summer, [Cecelia] Barron’s cancer went from stage 2 to stage 3 oligodendroglioma. Behnam Badie, her surgeon at City of Hope, ...
Viewpoint: Politico veers again into pseudoscience and politics with another misleading glyphosate infographic
Once again, a website known for its political coverage proves itself unable to report on science-related issues ...
Bayer releases 107 Roundup safety studies as glyphosate-cancer legal battle continues
With recent legal battles, Bayer [has released]....all 107 Bayer-owned glyphosate safety study reports that were submitted to the European Food Safety ...
‘Glioblastoma-on-a-chip’ could boost efforts to treat deadliest human cancer
The most common form of malignant brain cancer—called a glioblastoma—is notoriously wily and considered the deadliest human cancer. … [R]esearchers ...
A jury decided glyphosate caused cancer. Is this society’s ‘search for a scapegoat’ for the deadly disease?
A San Francisco jury decided last month that a plaintiff’s case of non-Hodgkin lymphoma was caused by Bayer’s Roundup weedkiller ...
How evolutionary pressure could be harnessed in cancer treatments
Cancer cells develop resistance to the powerful chemicals deployed to destroy them. Even if cancer therapies kill most of the ...
Neurologist Steven Novella: Here’s what latest science says about glyphosate-cancer link
Glyphosate has been in the news recently because of the recent court case in which a jury awarded DeWayne Johnson ...
Pesticides increase cancer risk for farmers? Rethinking the ‘irrefutable consensus’
Though it may seem otherwise, the term 'irrefutable' is not at all flattering ...
Viewpoint: Bayer ‘open for looting’ as company battles 11,000 glyphosate-cancer lawsuits
The vagaries of American tort law were on display in San Francisco....as six jurors decided that Bayer AG is liable ...
Viewpoint: How the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. fails viewers in its misleading coverage of GMO crops and glyphosate
There is no excuse for such misinformation from Canada's ‘National News Agency.' ...
Viewpoint: Blood tests for cancer would be ‘less invasive, less expensive, less traumatic’
Eleven years ago, I was shocked to be diagnosed with advanced lymphoma. To offer an informed second opinion, an oncologist ...
US Roundup-cancer trials spur glyphosate import ban in Vietnam
Vietnam has banned the import of glyphosate-containing herbicides after a U.S. court ruled that a weed killer, produced and sold ...
Do participants in genetics research studies have the right to know—or not know—about troubling DNA results?
Is it possible to know too much about our own genetic profile? ...
Viewpoint: Anti-glyphosate ‘true believers’ circumvent democracy with legal crusade against Bayer’s Roundup weed killer
Between the opportunists and the 'true believers'...which is worse? ...
China revives discredited ‘malarial therapy’ as cancer treatment
American surgeon Henry Heimlich is best known for inventing a way to rescue choking victims, but a quarter-century ago, he was vilified ...
Relapse risk could be predicted by cancer’s ‘internal wiring’
The "internal wiring" of breast cancer can predict which women are more likely to survive or relapse, say researchers. The ...
Is it easier to get cancer than previously thought?
[C]ancer might arise more easily than previously thought. By doing experiments on both yeast cells and on human cells in ...
As EU glyphosate-cancer debate rages, 4 countries may take over herbicide safety evaluation from Germany
France, Hungary, the Netherlands and Sweden have agreed to take over from Germany as the lead countries responsible for assessing ...
Gut bacteria could play key role in patient response to new cancer treatments
Does the quality and diversity of human gut bacteria determine whether people will successfully respond to cancer treatment? “When we ...
How ‘smart toilets’ and other technologies could help detect cancer before it’s too late
I believe we should be more aggressively pursuing precision health: ways to prevent disease and, when that isn’t possible, intercept and ...
Can a blood test lead to more precise treatments for lung cancer patients?
Could a blood test help more lung cancer patients get drugs that are targeted to the genetic weaknesses of their ...
Using personality types to predict cancer? Why was this 30-year-old case of ‘probable scientific fraud’ never investigated?
The Journal of Health Psychology has just published an extraordinary pair of papers that call for a new inquiry into a 30-year ...
From pesticide scare stories to insect ‘extinction,’ reporters are addicted to ‘pseudoscience,’ says science writer Matt Ridley
Three times in [February 2019], pseudo-science flew around the world before the scientific truth had got its boots on (as ...
