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 ...

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

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

In this 1950’s photo released by the National Archives, men included in a syphilis study pose for a photo in Tuskegee, Ala. For 40 years starting in 1932, medical workers in the segregated South ...

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 ...

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 ...