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

Novartis has settled a suit by Henrietta Lacks' estate alleging the pharmaceutical giant unjustly profited off cells were ...

A Columbus mother is raising concerns about a drug-testing company contracted by Franklin County Children Services.

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 ...

A federal judge has denied motions to dismiss a lawsuit over the death of a developmentally disabled woman in San Diego County jail custody, allowing her family’s claims of unconstitutional medical ...

Doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took Henrietta Lacks’ cervical cells in 1951 without her knowledge. Those HeLa cells became ...

A Brevard County couple who got pregnant with IVF in December gave birth to a baby girl who is not their biological child and ...

Ms. Lacks’s family accused Novartis of profiting from her cells, which were taken from her without her consent in 1951, when ...

Henrietta Lacks’ cells were the first to reproduce in a laboratory, outside the human body, and have been used in ...

Key considerations for health plan sponsors in covering family-building benefits (including in vitro fertilization (IVF)) ...