The agreement ends litigation between the Swiss company and the estate of Henrietta Lacks, which filed a lawsuit in federal court in Baltimore against Novartis and Viatris in August 2024. The family ...

In a little-noticed move, Novartis last week settled a lawsuit by the estate of Henrietta Lacks, resolving claims that it profited from using her "immortal" cells without permission.

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Two of Henrietta Lacks’ family members spoke at an Interfaith Bioethics conference to honor her legacy and emphasize ...

Unlike anything the doctors, researchers, and lab technicians had ever seen, Lacks’ cells continued to live and multiply while all other tissue sample cells died within days of their extraction from ...

Turner Station resident Henrietta Lacks died at the age of 31 while undergoing treatment for cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins ...

In 1951, a young Black woman named Henrietta Lacks presented to the Johns Hopkins Hospital with a complaint of vaginal ...

Yesterday, Maryland lawmakers in Annapolis took a high-profile step to create a state commission named for Henrietta Lacks, the Turner Station resident whose cells were taken without her knowledge and ...

ROANOKE, Va. (WDBJ) - On this day, 105 years ago in 1920, Henrietta Lacks was born in Roanoke. She later moved to Halifax County. After a diagnosis of cervical cancer in 1951, her cells were taken by ...