Real progress in health inequities requires meeting communities where they are and addressing the root causes of medical ...

The Tuskegee syphilis study, as the experiment is often called today, began in 1932 with the recruitment of 600 Black men, 399 with syphilis and 201 without, to serve as the control group.

Peter Buxtun, a whistleblower who exposed and helped end the Tuskegee syphilis study, a four-decade experiment in which the U.S. Public Health Service used hundreds of Black men as human guinea ...

In 2017, American tennis star Serena Williams experienced life-threatening complications from childbirth. Her cover story ...

When people hear about syphilis, a contagious venereal disease, they might think it's an old disease of royal families. But ...

When people hear about syphilis, a contagious venereal disease, they might think it's an old disease of royal families. More ...

Then it can spread to the nerves, and become neurological syphilis." In 1932, the Tuskegee experiment began at a time when there was no cure for syphilis. An article on history.com titled ...

ATLANTA (AP) — An early Sunday shooting at Tuskegee University in Alabama left one person dead and injured 16 others, 12 of them wounded by gunfire, authorities said. The victim of the shooting, an 18 ...

The experiment, which echoed the infamous 1960s Tuskegee study on black American men who were deliberately left untreated for syphilis, was uncovered by Susan Reverby, a professor of women's studies ...