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Ruth Bader Ginsburg Has Surgery…

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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had surgery Friday morning for two malignant nodules in her left lung, a Supreme Court spokeswoman said. The 85-year-old Ginsburg is “resting comfortably” after the surgery, the spokeswoman said. The surgery was performed at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York. The two nodules in the lower lobe of her […]

3 More Blood Pressure Drugs Recalled Over Cancer Risk: Here’s What You Should Know…

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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an update on Dec. 6 about its ongoing recall of heart and blood pressure medication due to impurities that could cause cancer. It said Mylan Pharmaceuticals “is expanding its voluntary recall to include all lots of non-expired valsartan-containing products due to trace amounts of N-Nitrosodiethylamine (NDEA) in […]

Cancer Victim’s Attorneys Blast Monsanto’s Request for New Trial…

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Calling Monsanto’s efforts to hide the alleged carcinogenicity of its Roundup weed killer “reprehensible,” attorneys for a school groundskeeper dying of cancer urged a San Francisco judge late Monday to keep intact a $289 million jury verdict for their client. Curtis Hoke, an attorney with The Miller Firm who represents Dewayne Johnson, argued in court […]

Roundup the Academics? Monsanto Verdict Raises New Troubling Questions About Professors Working Under Corporate Sponsorship…

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For a growing number of critics, the breakthrough verdict against Monsanto for $289 million over its Roundup weedkiller is an indictment of the company’s corporate culture but also of academics who were used by the company to discredit scientific studies linking the herbicide to cancer. Former groundskeeper, Dewayne Johnson, 46, reportedly has only months to […]

Monsanto Rests Its Case in Roundup Cancer Trial…

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A Chicago oncologist suggested Friday that a groundskeeper’s aggressive lymphoma was inherited and not caused by Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer, in a California jury trial over the herbicide’s alleged carcinogenicity. Although Rush University’s Timothy Kuzel didn’t directly call the man’s non-Hodgkin lymphoma an inherited disease, he testified about various emerging treatments grounded in the theory […]

Monsanto Scientist Grilled in Roundup Cancer Trial…

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On the 14th day of a California jury trial over whether Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer triggered a Bay Area man’s terminal lymphoma, a Harvard cancer epidemiologist denied telling the jury that research showing a link between the herbicide and cancer is flawed because Monsanto paid her $100,000. Running through a number of epidemiological studies finding […]

Australian Researchers Develop ‘World First’ Melanoma Blood Test…

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Australian researchers have developed “the world’s first” blood test to detect early-stage melanoma, a development that they said could save thousands of lives and millions of dollars in healthcare costs. The researchers from Edith Cowan University said the blood test could help doctors detect the skin cancer at early stages when it is more easily […]

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