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 ...

Thirty-five years ago, the covers were pulled off the Tuskegee syphilis experiment conducted by the Macon County Public Health Service. Although it certainly wasn’t the first or last of racist ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

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.

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 ...