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.

CHICAGO (WLS) -- January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month. ABC7 was joined by special guests head of an event Saturday at Imani Village promoting cancer prevention and more representation for Black ...

The story of Henrietta Lacks and her “immortal” cells is not quite over. Her eldest son, Lawrence Lacks, has come forth requesting compensation from Baltimore’s Johns Hopkins University and possibly ...

GARY — Immortality comes with a catch. Something may be taken without your say. Even your loved ones won’t learn about it until decades later. So it was for the family of Henrietta Lacks, a poor black ...

74 years ago, Turner Station resident Henrietta Lacks died at the age of 31 while undergoing treatment for cervical cancer at Johns Hopkins Hospital. Without the express permission of Lacks or her ...

Henrietta Lacks has saved a countless numbers of lives, and that was after she died from cervical cancer in 1951. More than six decades ago, cells from Lacks’ body became the first human cells to ever ...