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 ...

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.

History reminds us that scientific progress achieved at the expense of the most vulnerable cannot be justified.

Loudoun County Public Schools named a primary school after Henrietta Lacks, an African American woman who's had a lasting medical impact on the world. The district gathered to honor Lacks in a ...

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 ...