This week brought 4 major new Nature papers on genomics. Over the next 20 years, the findings they report, will: 1) materially impact...

A March 26, 2021 NYT article uses the genomic analyses of Covid to provide a cogent overview of the ongoing revolution in genomic...

For World Cancer Day, it seems the right time to highlight some of the stark data on expected future cancers around the globe. Regardless...

Trial has finally arrived for the long-pending and much litigated Donovan class action against big tobacco in federal court in...

Big tobacco just caught a break through a narrow 4-2 ruling by the New York Court of Appeals that rejects an independent cause of action...

A UK research team published a May 27, 2012 paper describing a new technique for finding biomarkers in blood — at a level 9x lower than...

Results are arriving from new science, and the news ties to medical monitoring claims against the tobacco industry. Specifically, the...

Late stage cancers usually kill the victim, brutally. That’s especially true for the vicious cancer commonly known as mesothelioma....

The article is here. Note also that the article says the legislation would provide money for an early detection program for cancers. One...

I’m setting aside James Hardie and Australia for a few days. News on Friday provides a great springboard for some comments in the same...

I’d love to take a few days to read and write about interesting thinking on mass torts and claims resolution issues. But that’s not...

More great new science at the observable cellular level. As described below, scientists used tools to observe cellular level shapes, and...

Mayer Brown includes Herbert Zarov and other well regarded defense lawyers focused on toxic tort claims. Mr. Zarov and his colleagues...

Today was not a good day for the tobacco industry or certain other “mass tort” defendants and/or insurers involved with cancer claiming....

This August 27 press release from Abbott and Pfizer exemplifies another way science is changing and will over time create new legal...

Today, more on science, cancer and law. Why do I think these topics are worth writing about for tort lawyers and perhaps some...