Tuskegee syphilis experiment

Investigation: Ethics Violations in Health Experiments

This week, a presidential bioethics committee met to discuss one of the most shocking violations of medical ethics –  a clinical study done back in the 1970s on nearly 400 African American men in Tuskegee Alabama to study the progression of syphilis. The men believed they were receiving free health care from the US government.  But just […]

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US apologizes for 1940s Guatemala Syphilis experiments

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