Senator Ben Cardin

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Senator Ben Cardin @SenatorCardin

Doctors found that Lacks’ cells could thrive in a lab and were shipped around the world as the subject of 74k+ studies. Her family did not know that her cells were alive or being used. The cells, called HeLa cells, laid the base for the multibillion-dollar biotech industry. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 21, 2022

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In 1951, Henrietta Lacks was a young mother who went to The Johns Hopkins Hospital, one of the few hospitals that would care for poor Black Americans, to be treated for cancer. While there, health providers removed her cells without her knowledge or consent. — PolitiTweet.org

The debt of gratitude we owe Henrietta Lacks can never be fully repaid. But we can work to right this historic wron… https://t.co/bPVSjqjBoC

Posted April 21, 2022

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In 2013, after 62 years of research and 62 years since Lacks’ death, Lacks’ family was granted some control over how her genome was being used. Lacks’ story led to the rewriting of the rules around ethics in health care, including patient privacy and consent. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted April 21, 2022