Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Henrietta Lacks changed modern medicine when doctors took her cells without her consent in 1951. Lacks began feeling 'knots' in ...

The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks is posied to premiere on HBO next month. And, ESSENCE is focusing on the story of Lacks and her immortal cells in our April issue. The film’s stars, Oprah Winfrey ...

The family of Henrietta Lacks, a Black cancer patient whose cells were taken by Johns Hopkins University Hospital without her consent in 1951, has reached a deal over the unethical use of her cells ...

Just over a week after Henrietta Lacks’ descendants settled a lawsuit against a biotech company they accused of unjustly profiting off her cells for generations, the family’s attorneys have filed ...

Dr. Roland Pattillo and his wife Pat O'Flynn Pattillo paid for Henrietta Lacks' permanent headstone, a smooth, substantial block of pink granite. It sits in the shape of a hardcover book. Henrietta ...

This story was originally published by The Baltimore Banner. Henrietta Lacks’ living relatives gathered Tuesday morning in a sunny Baltimore waterfront park to herald the settlement they reached with ...

KALAMAZOO, Mich. — The descendants of Henrietta Lacks reached a settlement with biotechnology company Thermo Fisher Scientific Inc., a family lawyer said Tuesday. The settlement comes more than 70 ...

BALTIMORE (Gray News) - The family of Henrietta Lacks has reached a settlement with biotech company Thermo Fisher Scientific over the use of her cells for research. Details of the settlement haven’t ...

Share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Facebook Share on X (Opens in new window) X The family of Henrietta Lacks agreed Monday to settle its lawsuit against Thermo Fisher Scientific, a ...