Racism that fueled the syphilis study still permeates the U.S. health care system, causing disparities in access to medical ...

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 ...

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 ...

As a medical student and researcher, I was shocked by the brazen inequity of the trial.  Randomized controlled trials have ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this 1950s file photo released by the National Archives, men included in a syphilis study pose for a photo in Tuskegee, Ala.

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Peter Buxtun, a whistleblower who exposed and helped end the Tuskegee syphilis study, a four-decade experiment in which the U.S. Public Health Service used hundreds of Black men as human guinea pigs, ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — EDITOR’S NOTE — On July 25, 1972, Jean Heller, a reporter on The Associated Press investigative team, then called the Special Assignment Team, broke news that rocked the nation.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. NEW YORK (AP) — Peter Buxtun, the whistleblower who revealed that the U.S. government allowed hundreds of Black men in rural ...

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