In early 1951, a woman named Henrietta Lacks visited the “colored ward” at Johns Hopkins hospital for a painful lump she found on her cervix. She was seen by Dr. Howard W. Jones, who indeed ...

BALTIMORE — More than 70 years after doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital took Henrietta Lacks’ cervical cells without her knowledge, a lawyer for her descendants said they have reached a ...

A US biotechnology company has reached a settlement with the family of Henrietta Lacks ... died of cervical cancer in 1951 at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore. During attempts to cure her ...

Dr Howard Jones at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore obtained a small piece of tissue sample from her to diagnose and treat her; however, the cancer was so aggressive that Henrietta died just ...

The Henrietta Lacks Legacy Group said in a ... In 1951, Lacks was a patient at Johns Hopkins Hospital diagnosed with cervical cancer. After her death at 31, doctors took her cells without her ...