The Tuskegee Syphilis Study is a shameful reminder of what science without ethics can lead to. Starting in the early 1930s, this experiment conducted by the Public Health Service (PHS), the ...

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 study, has died.

Like the Tuskegee Experiment, where between 1932 and 1972 the U.S. Public Health Service conducted an experiment on 399 black men in the late stages of syphilis.

The experiment started in 1932, when the U.S. Public Health Service and the Tuskegee Institute began studying the “ natural history of syphilis ” in 600 Black men, 399 of whom had the disease ...

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 study, has ...

It was a 40-year-experiment that withheld medical treatment from 600 Black men in Alabama. One hundred of those men died. One of the study participants was Freddie Lee Tyson, Lillie Tyson Head's ...

A new ad campaign launched Wednesday with relatives of men who unwittingly became part of the infamous experiment wants to change minds. Omar Neal, 63, a former mayor of the Alabama town, said he ...

Percy Gaines was a patient in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study for 40 years. He was sometimes given shots, tonics or pills and told they were for syphilis; he and his wife believed they were treatments.