tuskegee syphilis study
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Reporter Who Broke the News of The Tuskegee Experiment, Speaks Out 50 Years Later
50 years after the story broke, Jean Heller recalls what she went through to let the world know about The Tuskegee Experiment.
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Non-Profit Apologizes For Its Role in the Tuskegee Experiment
The Milbank Memorial Fund has issued a formal apology to the descendants of the participants in The Tuskegee Experiment
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Family of Man Who Was in Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment Say They Will Take COVID-19 Vaccine
The relatives of one of the men who were in the Tuskegee syphilis study say they will take the COVID-19 vaccine as soon as they can get it. During the study, which researchers from the Public Health Service and Tuskegee Health Institute ran from 1932 to 1972, hundreds of Black men who were told they…
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Distrust in Government, Knowledge of Past Medical Abuses Fuels Black Americans' Aversion to Coronavirus Vaccine, Study Finds
High levels of distrust toward the federal government—as well as a knowledge of historic medical abuses in the Black community—can hamper efforts to get Black Americans to take a free coronavirus vaccine, should one be available, finds a new study. While several studies have come out in recent months gauging potential public responses to a…
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45 Years After the Tuskegee Syphilis Study Ended, the Legal Fallout Lives On in Federal Court: Report
It has been some 45 years since the horrific “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male,” also known as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, came to an end after it was exposed that medical workers, working with the U.S. Public Health Service, were withholding treatment from nonconsenting and unsuspecting black men infected with syphilis—which…