For decades, the story of Henrietta Lacks has carried a painful contradiction: cells taken from her body helped transform modern medicine, yet the Black woman behind them died poor and unknown, buried ...

Novartis is the second drug company to settle a lawsuit brought by the family of a woman whose cells have enabled huge advances in science.

Lacks' cells were taken from her tumor without her knowledge in 1951 and reproduced in labs to enable major medical ...

The family of Henrietta Lacks has reached an undisclosed settlement with pharmaceutical company Novartis, marking another legal victory in their effort to hold companies accountable for profiting from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Descendants of Henrietta Lacks, whose cells, known as HeLa cells, have been used in medical research without her permission, say a ...

Shawn Berkins and the Baltimore community honored the driving force behind modern scientific research during a Henrietta Lacks Paint Day. Artist Shawn Berkins and Baltimore residents honor Henrietta ...

The Henrietta Lacks estate has secured a settlement with Novartis over the unauthorized use of her cancer cells, while additional lawsuits remain ongoing. The estate of Henrietta Lacks has reached a ...

By Blake Brittain March 12 (Reuters) - Generic drugmaker Viatris has settled a lawsuit brought by the family of Henrietta ...

The family of Henrietta Lacks has settled another lawsuit over the use of her cells, which were taken without consent during ...

GENEVA (AP) — The chief of the World Health Organization has honored the late Henrietta Lacks, an American woman whose cancer cells ended up providing the foundation for vast scientific breakthroughs.

Novartis has settled a lawsuit by the estate of Henrietta Lacks that alleged the pharmaceutical giant unjustly profited off her cells, which were taken from her tumor without her knowledge in 1951 and ...