cancer
Judge fears Bayer ‘manipulated’ $11 billion glyphosate settlement, opening door to more cancer trials
U.S. District Judge Vince Chhabria said during a hearing [August 27] he’s concerned Bayer has “manipulated” the [$11 billion] settlement ...
Viewpoint: Ideology, politics pollute the debate over health risks of red meat
For decades there has been a statistical controversy about meat. By statistical I mean it was never a real health ...
Following ‘ministerial spat’ over glyphosate, Mexico will phase out weedkiller by end of 2024
Mexico will gradually phase out use of the herbicide glyphosate by the time the current administration ends in late 2024, ...
Dinosaur cancer? We suffer from malignancies that afflicted our distant biological relatives
[S]cientists say they have, for the first time, found that dinosaurs suffered from osteosarcoma -- an aggressive malignant cancer that ...
Podcast: Rebel Cell: Cancer, evolution and the science of life
Geneticist Dr Kat Arney brings you exclusive excerpts from her new book Rebel Cell, exploring where cancer came from, where ...
‘Tantalizing solutions’: How we are developing the next generation of cancer drugs
Cancer treatments have always been linked to a specific part of the body — these drugs for breast cancer, and ...
Aristolochic acids: Natural insecticides found in medicinal plants cause of mysterious kidney disease?
The plant, Aristolochia clematitis—more commonly known as birthwort—can surely be called beautiful, but within it lurks a poison. Over the ...
Glyphosate weedkiller unlikely to impact ovarian function, studies find
Exposure to the chemical glyphosate changed the level of some ovarian proteins in mice but did not impact ovarian steroid ...
Viewpoint: Red meat increases cancer risk? Maybe, but staying healthy isn’t as simple as avoiding steak
Summer is a great time to grill steaks and hamburgers…they were definitely featured in our Fourth of July BBQ! We ...
Viewpoint: Bogus glyphosate-cancer litigation undermines legitimate product safety lawsuits
Nearly every American was taught the same six steps that serve as a fundamental building block to scientific education: Make ...
Bayer loses first glyphosate-cancer appeal, but court cuts damages by 74 percent to $20.5 million
Bayer AG failed to persuade a California appeals court to overturn a verdict favoring a school groundskeeper who claimed its ...
Evidence may not matter: Roundup cancer settlements could trigger international pesticide suits regardless of health impacts
Since litigation began a couple years ago, Roundup, a particular brand of glyphosate based pesticide, is now firmly established as ...
AI blood sample analysis catches cancer early
Most popular DNA screenings for cancer risk test only a single gene site, like BRCA1. But Grail’s chief medical officer ...
Low-carb diets might help treat Alzheimer’s, ALS—and even cancer?
[T]here is a growing interest in [Ketogenic] extreme high-fat diet among researchers. In 2019 alone, more than a thousand new ...
Deal to limit future glyphosate suits against Bayer collapsing, but $10.9 billion settlement likely to hold
The plan concocted by Monsanto owner Bayer AG and a small group of lawyers was filed [in June] in U.S ...
Will the Bayer glyphosate settlement fall apart? Judge says he may reject $10.9 billion Monsanto Roundup agreement, saying future plaintiffs might be hurt
[In June] Bayer agreed to pay as much as $10.9 billion to settle close to 100,000 U.S. lawsuits [alleging its ...
How the COVID pandemic may have helped Bayer settle crippling glyphosate-cancer litigation
[Editor's note: Biotech giant Bayer recently settled roughly 95,000 lawsuits alleging it Roundup herbicide causes cancer. The $10.9 billion settlement ...
Viewpoint: Bayer’s $10 billion glyphosate settlement follows familiar pattern of legalized plunder
The only reason Bayer is paying anybody anything is a flawed U.S. tort system that left the company little choice ...
GMO insect-resistant Bt prevents cancer and saves farmers up to $167 million per year, study shows
Previous field studies have reached no collective consensus on whether Bt corn, the most commonly planted transgenic crop worldwide, has ...
Viewpoint: Bayer caved to anti-science trial lawyers by settling glyphosate-cancer lawsuits
Bayer, the German pesticide and seed company, has agreed to establish a $10 billion fund that aims to resolve current ...
Bayer settles estimated 95,000 glyphosate weedkiller-cancer lawsuits with 25 firms for more than $10 billion, admits no wrongdoing
Bayer, the world's largest seed and pesticide maker, has agreed to pay more than $10 billion to settle tens of ...
$8-10 billion settlement in thousands of Bayer glyphosate lawsuits ‘imminent’
Biotech giant Bayer is expected to settle thousands of lawsuits alleging its Roundup weedkiller causes cancer the week of June ...
California can’t force Bayer to put Prop. 65 cancer warning on Roundup glyphosate weedkiller, judge rules
A federal judge in Sacramento on [June 22] ruled for Bayer and blocked the state from requiring that any company ...
Injecting live bacteria into tumors? Synthetic biology revives a controversial century old cancer cure
Could the body, in fighting against a pathogen, also be battling a tumor? After injecting bacteria into a patient who ...
Plaintiffs attorneys in glyphosate-cancer suit plead guilty to $200 million extortion plot
According to the [Virginia] Department of Justice, 38-year-old Timothy Litzenburg, of Charlottesville, and 41-year-old Daniel Kincheloe, of Glen Allen, each ...
Podcast: The dark connection between cancer research and the eugenics movement
Exploring how the stories of the 'cancer ladies' - Maud Slye and Pauline Gross - intersect with the eugenics movement ...
GMO goats can produce ‘blockbuster’ cancer drug in their milk, which could slash prices for patients
Goats can be genetically modified to produce a common cancer drug in their milk, which could slash its production costs ...
