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 ...

Henrietta Lacks, often called the ‘Mother of Modern Medicine,’ has left a legacy that transcends generations and continues to ...

Henrietta Lacks, a poor African American tobacco farmer from Virginia, was born in August 1920 and was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cervical cancer at the age of 31. Dr Howard Jones at ...