NEW YORK (AP) — Peter Buxtun, the whistleblower who revealed that the U.S. government allowed hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama to go untreated for syphilis in what became known as the Tuskegee ...

The Tuskegee syphilis study stands as one of the greatest moral failures in American medical history, a reminder of what ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Foundation has pledged to give $5 million in scholarships for descendants of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, in which more than 600 Black men infected ...

50 years after the story broke, Jean Heller recalls what she went through to let the world know about The Tuskegee Experiment. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study was an unethical medical experiment the ...

As the U.S. continues the push to get more Americans vaccinated against COVID-19, there is a renewed effort to address vaccine hesitancy, especially among African Americans. A new short film takes a ...

Former Associated Press investigative reporter Jean Heller stands near a copy of her story printed in the front page of The New York Times at her home in Southport, N.C., on Saturday, July 9, 2022. In ...

Sixty-five years after the federal government undertook its syphilis research project on unsuspecting African-American men, President Clinton apologized to the survivors and all victims' families. In ...

Brown is the vice president of medical affairs and patient advocacy at Southern Research and project lead for Catalyst. Sodeke is the resident bioethicist and professor of bioethics at the Center for ...

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