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 ...

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.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A photo of Henrietta Lacks sits in the living room of her grandson, Ron Lacks in Baltimore in 2017. (Jonathan Newton/The ...

The pharmaceutical corporation Novartis has settled a lawsuit brought by the estate of Henrietta Lacks. The family sued on the basis that the company unjustly profited off her cells, which were taken ...