cancer
Judge upholds landmark glyphosate-cancer verdict, cuts punitive damages 84% to $39 million
A California judge has rejected Monsanto’s appeal to overturn a landmark jury verdict which found that its popular herbicide causes cancer. The ...
Cancer and genetics: Why smoking threatens more than just your lungs
Cigarettes smoking causes lung, throat and larynx cancers–which makes sense because those tissues come directly into contact with smoke and ...
Breaking the body’s ‘sugar code’ could refine our ability to predict, treat diseases
Key elements of arthritis, cancer, food allergies and aging are trapped within glycans, types of sugar in the human body ...
Viewpoint: Do male doctors tend to be paternalistic when treating ‘female’ diseases?
When my silent assassin emerged last autumn, I pressed my surgeon about the prognosis for a form of peritoneal cancer ...
Viewpoint: How anti-GMO activist-journalist Carey Gillam primes the glyphosate litigation pump
The Guardian published an article by Sam Levin and Carey Gillam [on October 7] about the “new era of cancer lawsuits ...
Viewpoint: Vodka is a known carcinogen. Who cares if Smirnoff makes it GMO-free?
Is there any marketing scheme more dishonest than the promotion of an alcoholic beverage as non-GMO? Smirnoff, which claims to ...
Glyphosate-cancer case appeal: Judge inclined to set aside $250 million of damages, order new trial
Bayer AG won a tentative ruling slashing the lion’s share of a $289 million verdict in the first trial over claims ...
CAR-T cell therapy and the promise of immune cells engineered to fight cancer
The National Cancer Institute estimates that more than 1.7 million people will be diagnosed with cancer this year. To cope ...
Using your body’s internal clock to offset those bad eating habits
When we eat late at night, it disrupts our circadian rhythm. Eating within an 8-12 hour time period could reset ...
Family DNA disease connection: How my breast cancer diagnosis saved my father from pancreatic cancer
In April 2012, as I prepared to undergo a double mastectomy, it was [my grandma] Gertrud’s face that flashed before ...
Why are all Roundup-cancer lawsuits filed in the US?
The unique conditions present in the U.S. led to the filing of more than 8,000 court claims alleging the use ...
Were ‘crucial contributors’ snubbed in awarding Nobel prize for cancer immunotherapy?
[I]t’s rare that Nobel announcements don’t produce grumblings about who was left out, and this year was no exception. At ...
Most people don’t know if they have cancer-causing BRCA mutation, study says
Most people who carry genes that raise their risk of developing certain forms of cancer are unaware of it, according to ...
Plaintiff’s attorney ‘manipulated’ jury in Roundup-cancer trial, Bayer claims
Calling Monsanto’s efforts to hide the alleged carcinogenicity of its Roundup weed killer “reprehensible,” attorneys for a school groundskeeper dying ...
Pioneering cancer immunotherapy researchers awarded Nobel Prize in medicine
The Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine was awarded Monday [Oct. 1, 2018] to cancer researchers James P. Allison and ...
Talking Biotech: Thalidomide once caused birth defects—now it treats cancer
The sleep medication thalidomide caused thousands of birth defects in the 1960s. But experts say it's also a powerful cancer ...
How do we persuade relatives of cancer patients to seek genetic testing?
Cancer patients’ close relatives might be willing to get tests to see if they share genetic mutations that put them ...
Can I drink glyphosate? Answers to common questions about the controversial weed killer
In recent weeks, there has been an uptick in the conversation about the safety of glyphosate, a common weed killer, ...
How crowdfunding is being used for ‘dubiuous, possibly dangerous’ alternative cancer treatments
It’s become a heartbreakingly common sight on the internet: People using crowdfunding sites to raise money for their expensive health ...
Viewpoint: US should cut funding to ‘politically-driven’ IARC cancer agency
[September 19th], Congress passed an appropriations bill that kept funding intact for the .... International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC). The ...
Viewpoint: Precision medicine promises a lot, but has delivered little
Doctors and hospitals love to talk about the patients they’ve saved with precision medicine, and reporters love to write about ...
Cancer will be the ‘single biggest barrier to increasing our life expectancy,’ report says
The number of people around the world who have cancer is "rapidly growing," with 18.1 million new cases and 9.6 ...
Bayer asks judge to toss ‘flimsy’ $289 million glyphosate-cancer verdict
Bayer on [September 18th] said it wants a California state court judge to overturn the jury’s verdict, order a new ...
French National Assembly rejects glyphosate weed killer ban for second time
The heated debate lasted all night, but the [French] National Assembly rejected all amendments to include a [glyphosate] herbicide ban ...
Viewpoint: Coffee cancer warning illustrates failure of California’s Prop 65 law
On August 29, the FDA threw its hat into California’s eternal does-or-doesn’t-coffee-cause-cancer fight. “Requiring a cancer warning on coffee, based ...
Targeting breast cancer through the genes of Sub-Saharan African women
For the first time, DNA contributed by Sub-Saharan African women has been thoroughly evaluated with innovative genomics technology in an ...
Using AI to predict evolution of cancer tumors could lead to stronger treatments
Scientists have used artificial intelligence to predict how cancers will progress and evolve, which could help doctors design the most effective treatment for each ...
