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 ...

The Tuskegee syphilis study stands as one of the greatest moral failures in American medical history, a reminder of what ...

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 ...

Fifty years after officials halted one of the most unethical public health studies in United States history, the societal effects of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and the health injustices it represents ...

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.

50 years after the story broke, Jean Heller recalls what she went through to let the world know about The Tuskegee Experiment. The Tuskegee Syphilis Study was an unethical medical experiment the ...

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Peter Buxtun, who blew the lid off the so-called Tuskegee study in which the U.S. government withheld syphilis treatment from hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama over decades in a macabre and ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Foundation has pledged to give $5 million in scholarships for descendants of the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, in which more than 600 Black men infected ...