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Monsanto ordered to pay $289 million in world's first Roundup cancer trial

(Reuters) – A California jury on Friday found Monsanto liable in a lawsuit filed by a man who alleged the company’s glyphosate-based weed-killers, including Roundup, caused his cancer and ordered the company to pay $ 289 million in damages. The case of school groundskeeper Dewayne Johnson was the first lawsuit to go to trial alleging… Read More: Monsanto ordered to pay $289 million in world's first Roundup… »

Bowel cancer screening to start earlier at age 50 in England

Image copyright Getty ImagesImage caption Bowel cancer is the fourth most common cancer in the UK Bowel cancer screening in England is to start earlier, at age 50, Public Health England has announced. It said evidence showed that screening people at a younger age would allow more bowel cancers to be picked up at an… Read More: Bowel cancer screening to start earlier at age 50 in… »