ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis jury has ruled in favor of Johnson & Johnson in the latest of several lawsuits alleging that the company’s baby powder caused ovarian cancer.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Shortly after arriving in Boston to start a dream job as food stylist and cast member on "America's Test Kitchen," Elle Simone Scott received some life-altering news.

BAR HARBOR, Maine (AP) — A laboratory in Maine is announcing a multimillion-dollar collaboration with pharmaceutical giant Sanofi to try to tackle two kinds of cancer.

WASHINGTON (AP) — The government form lay on the dining room table in Mary Klein's home in Northwest Washington. At the top, in bold letters, was a simple declaration: "REQUEST FOR MEDICATION TO END MY LIFE IN A HUMANE AND PEACEFUL MANNER."

"I need two witnesses for my application," Klein's friend Kelly Saunders recalls her saying. "Would you be a witness?"

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri judge denied Johnson & Johnson's bid to overturn a $4.7 billion jury verdict awarded to nearly two dozen women who said the company's talcum powder contributed to their ovarian cancer.

St. Louis Circuit Judge Rex Burlison, in a ruling Wednesday, cited evidence of what he called "particularly reprehensible conduct" by Johnson & Johnson.

TUPELO, Miss. (AP) — Breast cancer survivors need to look to the future.

Women who are diagnosed with early-stage disease are expected to live full lives after treatment.

"Breast cancer screening has essentially transformed breast cancer care," said Tupelo radiation oncologist Dr. Benjamin Hinton. "The vast majority are diagnosed at early stage and have excellent prognoses. People are living longer than ever."

ST. LOUIS (AP) — In a story on July 12 about a jury ruling on claims that asbestos in Johnson & Johnson talcum powder contributed to ovarian cancer, The Associated Press erroneously reported that the case was the first against the company that focused on asbestos in the powder. Other lawsuits have alleged asbestos in the powder contributed to cancer.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Latest on a St. Louis jury award in a lawsuit claiming asbestos in Johnson & Johnson talcum powder caused women's ovarian cancer (all times local):

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A St. Louis jury has awarded nearly $4.7 billion in damages to 22 women and their families after they claimed asbestos in Johnson & Johnson talcum powder caused their ovarian cancer.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri appeals court on Tuesday that vacated a $72 million award to an Alabama woman who claimed her use of Johnson & Johnson products that contained talcum contributed to her ovarian cancer has thrown the fate of awards in similar cases into doubt.

VANCOUVER, Wash. (AP) — Teri Giangreco didn't know the signs of ovarian cancer until she was sitting in her new gynecologic oncologist's office discussing her stage 3 ovarian cancer diagnosis.

A poster on the wall listed the four warning signs: bloating, feeling of fullness, pelvic pain and frequent need to urinate.

"We can justify them to be anything," Giangreco said.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A 49-year-old lowland gorilla at the Topeka Zoo in Kansas died Sunday after tests revealed she had late-stage ovarian cancer that had spread, four days after undergoing surgery for constipation.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis jury on Friday rejected a Tennessee woman's lawsuit that Johnson & Johnson baby powder contributed to her ovarian cancer, a victory for the company after it lost three previous, similar lawsuits in St. Louis.

An author fighting ovarian cancer who may not have long to live has offered up her husband in a tear-jerking essay: "If you're looking for a dreamy, let's-go-for-it travel companion, Jason is your man."

Amy Krouse Rosenthal described her illness and her marriage in a "Modern Love" column published Friday in the New York Times. It didn't take long for her essay to go viral online.

An author fighting ovarian cancer who may not have long to live has offered up her husband in a tear-jerking essay: "If you're looking for a dreamy, let's-go-for-it travel companion, Jason is your man."

Amy Krouse Rosenthal described her illness and her marriage in a "Modern Love" column published Friday in the New York Times. It didn't take long for her essay to go viral online.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — A Philadelphia based nonprofit has received a huge grant to develop a screen for ovarian cancer.

KYW-AM reports (http://cbsloc.al/2kZkQQl ) that Monell Chemical Senses Center received a three-year $815,000 grant from the Kleberg Foundation on Feb. 9. The funds will go toward finding a test which can help with early detection for rooting out the cancer.

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. health officials have approved a new option for some women battling ovarian cancer: a drug that targets a genetic mutation seen in a subset of hard-to-treat tumors.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Another lawsuit alleging that a woman's use of talcum powder caused cancer is this week in St. Louis.

Lawyers for a Modesto, California, woman say she was diagnosed with ovarian cancer in 2012 after years of talcum use. Her lawsuit accuses Johnson & Johnson of "negligent conduct" in making and marketing its baby powder.

PUEBLO, Colo. (AP) — Delene "Dee" Hall knew something was wrong. She had lower back pain and bladder problems, and menstruation was excruciating.

For years, decades even, she raised the issues with her doctors. They would diagnose her problem, possibly send her home with a prescription and tell her it was nothing serious, to essentially "walk it off."