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Viewpoint: As COVID-19 boosts public trust in science, media promote myths about cancer and food
Thanks to COVID-19, the public has gotten a lot more skeptical about claims that chemicals, food, and medicine are corporate ...
Podcast: Retracted hydroxychloroquine-COVID studies backlash; Obesity cancer drugs? ‘Unbiased’ Guardian takes animal rights money
Two major studies which found that the anti-malaria drug hydroxychloroquine doesn't treat COVID-19 have been retracted. What does that mean ...
Viewpoint: Lawyers win and science loses in Johnson & Johnson decision to halt US baby powder sales
Scientists say that talcum baby powder doesn't cause cancer. Trial lawyers say it does. As usual, the lawyers win. Scientists, ...
Viewpoint: At-home test detects cervical cancer early. It should be available to all women
I’m a public health nurse who has spent a career studying ways to better test women for the human papillomavirus ...
First glyphosate-cancer trial appeal could give Bayer ‘significant leverage’ in settlement talks with over 50,000 plaintiffs
A California appeals court on [June 2] will hear oral arguments in agrochemical giant Monsanto’s bid to toss a $78.5 ...
With glyphosate-cancer settlement nearing, is the Roundup controversy coming to an end?
Bayer AG is close to a turning point in its legal battle over the weedkiller Roundup. But it still has ...
Podcast: Cancer-causing baby powder? USDA cuts GMO rules; plant-based meat less healthy than you think
In an effort to keep up with rapidly evolving technology, the USDA has revamped its biotech crop rules, sparking a ...
Bayer reaches verbal settlement in up to 85,000 glyphosate-cancer suits for estimated $10 billion
Bayer AG has reached verbal agreements to resolve a substantial portion of an estimated 125,000 U.S. cancer lawsuits over use ...
Appeals court appears poised to cut jury award in landmark glyphosate-cancer case against Bayer but let verdict stand
A California appeals court looks poised to issue a ruling that would uphold the first U.S. trial victory involving allegations ...
Experimental cancer blood test shows promise, but also hits some snags
A blood test has detected cancer in individuals who had no history or symptoms of cancer. A trial of the ...
Combining acoustic waves and CRISPR to create gene therapies for cancer and genetic disorders
A UCLA-led research team [April 28] reports that it has developed a new method for delivering DNA into stem cells ...
UK considers coronavirus-free medical centers to get cancer treatments back on track
Thousands of cancer patients in the UK have had their treatment stopped or delayed because of COVID-19, and with pressures ...
Injecting tumors with a flu shot ignites cancer-killing immune response in mice
Nearly 5,000 years ago, Egyptian physician Imhotep observed a grotesque but revealing detail about tumors: some grew so large that ...
‘A cleaner kill’: Harnessing the body’s immune system to battle cancer
What if your immune system could kill cancers in the same way it does colds and flu? This concept may ...
‘Dogs are still the best’: But can a machine be taught to detect ovarian cancer with a ‘sniff’?
The ultimate goal was to develop an instrument that mimicked the abilities of a dog’s nose—a tool to detect the ...
Exercise as a weapon against cancer: 150 minutes a week could double survival chances
Evidence is accumulating that exercise improves the wellbeing of these patients by combating the physical and mental deterioration that often ...
‘Like trying to hit a moving target’: Why it’s so difficult to attack cancer with targeted gene therapies
We are, it seems, still a long way off from a cure, in any ordinary sense of the term. Yet ...
Targeting cancer cells by ‘putting the brakes’ on their ability to mutate and evolve
The vast majority of cancer deaths in the US come about not because of a lack of treatment, but because ...
Podcast: The misused meta-analysis—How statistical trickery yields impressive but bogus study results
A meta-analysis allows researchers to compile data from many smaller studies and, hopefully, find more conclusive answers to critical public ...
‘I’m a GMO’: Melanoma survivor explains how biotech improves cancer treatments and our food supply
Several years ago I felt several bumps on my head which turned out to be active melanoma tumors .... The ...
Viewpoint: Anti-vaccine, anti-GMO groups use coronavirus outbreak to stir unfounded 5G-cancer fears
Leave it to science denialists to exploit a global crisis and tragedy to spread health hysteria. As the world struggles ...
French agriculture minister says glyphosate key to sustainable farming, raising doubts about proposed weedkiller bans
France’s agriculture minister has declared glyphosate is an essential tool of the agroecological transition, raising hopes of a change in ...
Borrowing a trick from cancer cells could be key to improving organ and limb transplants
To help rats adopt transplanted limbs as their own, researchers have harnessed a ruse that cancer cells use to hide ...
Hunting for DNA signatures in blood could offer early warning system for cancer
The many companies developing liquid biopsies to try to detect cancer early have so far largely mined the blood in ...
Viewpoint: Anti-GMO activists ignore science when debating glyphosate safety
There are encouraging signs that people are beginning to tune out the activist propaganda ...
Promising cancer-fighting tactic—using nanoparticles—runs into a potential glitch
The challenge of chemotherapy is to kill off the tumor cells without doing too much harm to healthy ones. The ...
Viewpoint: GMOs offer protection against diseases, including cancer, by shielding us from dangerous aflatoxins
How European irony became an African tragedy ...
