The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male was an unethical experiment by the U.S. Public Health Service tracking the progression of the disease in a poor sharecropper population ...

Whistleblower Peter Buxtun in San Francisco. He exposed the Tuskegee syphilis study, a 40-year experiment in which hundreds of Black men in Alabama were allowed to go untreated for syphilis.

Fifty years ago today, the Associated Press pulled the curtain back on the infamous Tuskegee Study. U.S. Public Health Service doctors, reporter Jean Heller revealed, had for 40 years been withhold… ...

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 ...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the uncovering of arguably the most well-known and egregious case of medical racism and breach of ethics in U.S. history—the Tuskegee Syphilis Study—a ...

In this 1950s photo released by the National Archives, a Black man included in a syphilis study has blood drawn by a doctor in Tuskegee, Ala. Fifty years after the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study ...

For years, he tried to expose the Tuskegee syphilis study, but no one would listen. By Maggie Jones One afternoon in the mid-1960s at a U.S. Public Health Service clinic in San Francisco, Peter ...

The experiment, called the Tuskegee Study began in 1932 with about 600 black men mostly poor and uneducated, from Tuskegee, Ala., an area that had the highest syphilis rate in the nation at the time.

Bruxton, the whistleblower who revealed that the U.S. government allowed hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama go untreated for syphilis in what became known as the Tuskegee study, died on May 18 ...

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 ...

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 study, has died.