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 ...

Whistleblower Peter Buxtun in San Francisco. He exposed the Tuskegee syphilis study, a 40-year experiment in which hundreds of Black men in Alabama were allowed to go untreated for syphilis.

Tuskegee was the name of a tribal town of the Creek Indians. It was also the name of at least two Indian tribes, one living in central Alabama and the other in Tennessee. In the early part of the ...

Relatives of Black men who were unknowingly part of the infamous Tuskegee experiment are promoting COVID-19 vaccines in a new ad campaign.

Notorious Tuskegee study has lessons for COVID era, new film shows. Thursday, July 1, 2021. ... It was a 40-year-experiment that withheld medical treatment from 600 Black men in Alabama.

One of the last of the celebrated Tuskegee Airman, Charles McGee, dies at 102. By Douglass K. Daniel, Associated Press. He was a champion of public health — but played a role in the horrors of ...

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.

Visit the Mattress Factory during their half-price admission days, enjoy the classic "Romeo and Juliet" at the ballet or watch a new play about the Tuskegee Experiment — here's what to do in ...

A 34-year-old man died after he was shot early Friday morning in Tuskegee, according to the Macon County coroner. The shooting occurred around 3 a.m. Friday near Water Street, said Macon County ...

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 ...

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 ...