cancer
Cancer death rate in the US has dropped 27% over 25 years
The rate of people dying from cancer in the United States seems to have dropped steadily for 25 years, a ...
Plaintiffs may struggle to prove Roundup causes cancer in upcoming glyphosate trials
Bayer’s Monsanto is facing thousands of lawsuits from plaintiffs claiming exposure to glyphosate gave them cancer. Last August, a jury ...
Talking Biotech: Turning GMO plants into carcinogen-catching air filters
Could GMO houseplants purify the air in our homes? ...
Federal judge restricts evidence to be presented against Monsanto in upcoming glyphosate-cancer trials
Bayer shares rose by more than 6 percent [January 4], a day after a key court ruling in the upcoming ...
GMO houseplant traps carcinogenic chemicals that home air filters miss
[M]ost of us like to keep the air in our homes as clean as possible and we often go to ...
Searching for infectious canine cancer in the shadow of Chernobyl
After the [Chernobyl] explosion, over 90,000 people were evacuated from hundreds of towns and communities in the vicinity of the ...
Can consumer genetic tests actually make us healthier?
“I believe genetic testing saved my life,” says Kim Horner, author of “Probably Someday Cancer." ...
‘Cheap and simple’ 10-minute blood test can detect traces of cancer
Scientists have developed a universal cancer test that can detect traces of the disease in a patient’s bloodstream. The cheap ...
Targeting cancer with sugar-powered immunotherapy
Over the last few decades, researchers tinkering with molecules that turn an immune cell on and off have created a ...
Using single-cell sequencing to refine the search for disease culprits
[S]cientists, using a powerful technology called single-cell sequencing, have begun to peel apart the precise mechanisms of how individual cells ...
Some animal species never get cancer. What can we learn from them?
The search for clues has led researchers to study animals who don’t develop cancer at all ...
Boost for precision medicine? FDA approves drug targeting different cancers with shared mutation
The Food and Drug Administration on [November 26] approved a drug for a wide range of cancers based on a ...
First federal glyphosate-cancer trial slated for February 2019
A U.S. judge overseeing the federal litigation against Bayer AG’s Monsanto unit over glyphosate-based weed-killers allegedly causing cancer on [November ...
Bayer appeals $78M verdict in landmark Monsanto glyphosate-cancer lawsuit
Agribusiness giant Monsanto on [November 20] appealed a $78 million verdict in favor of a dying California man who said ...
Podcast: GLP’s Jon Entine on the spread of ‘chemophobia’
Chemicals are used to grow, process, preserve and package our food, and are ubiquitous in many products and in our ...
California judge orders expedited trial for couple alleging glyphosate caused their cancer
A California judge on [November 15] granted an expedited trial in the case of a California couple suffering from cancer ...
How immunotherapy uses our immune system to attack cancer
Our usual defence against disease is our immune system. It does an excellent job of sorting out what doesn’t belong ...
Weed killer in your Cheerios? A pesticide expert explains everything you should know about glyphosate
Glyphosate is the most widely used herbicide in the world and is applied to most of the U.S. corn and ...
Blasting rodents with cell phone radiation increased cancer risk. Here’s why that means nothing for humans
Last week the National Toxicology Program (NTP) issued an update on the results of the largest animal experiment to assess ...
Viewpoint: Why a jury verdict against Monsanto doesn’t change anything regarding the safety of Roundup herbicide
The common weed killer Roundup (glyphosate) is back in the news after a US court ruled it contributed to a man’s terminal cancer (non-Hodgkin ...
Why you need to know about RNA therapy and its potential to revolutionize disease treatment
After a decade of painstaking progress, the underdog is on the brink of treating a broad range of diseases ...
Why being tall may increase your cancer risk
Taller people have a greater risk of cancer because they are bigger and so have more cells in their bodies ...
Why ending muscle wasting matters for curing cancer
Deterioration of muscle is the cause of death in many diseases, like cancer, but no treatments address this lethal symptom ...
Cartoons offer ‘simple’ whimsical look at cancer immunotherapy through the eyes of scientists
Four years ago, I was hired for a new and terrific job: to help my colleagues at Solebury Trout and ...
Eating organic food reduces risk of some cancers, controversial study claims
A French study published in the JAMA [Journal of the American Medical Association[ Internal Medicine journal links eating organic food ...
Eating organic food prevents cancer? New study offers more confusion than clarity
The JAMA [Journal of the American Medical Association] Internal Medicine journal has a report .... on the relationship between organic food ...
Viewpoint: Chemophobia epidemic—Fanning fears about trace chemicals obscures real risks and ‘damages public health’
When is a chemical dangerous? This is not a question we consciously ask ourselves much, but in fact, we interrogate ...
