The Trump administration is facing condemnation over a medical study in West Africa that is being condemned as unethical and ...

Over 40 years, experimenters watched as hundreds of Black Americans went blind, suffered from organ failure, and died of a ...

The Trump administration is trying to discredit Africa’s top health agency over an hepatitis B study with infants.

So far, this all tracks perfectly with the many concerns presented when Robert Kennedy Jr. was nominated to be Secretary of ...

Introduction : race, medical uncertainty, and American culture -- Historical contingencies : Tuskegee Institute, the Public Health Service, and syphilis -- Planned, plotted, & official : the study ...

If you’ve ever needed penicillin to rescue you from an indiscretion, you owe a debt to the victims of an unconscionable action by U.S. medical researchers. The United States apologized on Friday for ...

The U.S. is giving $1.6 million to researchers to study how the hepatitis B vaccine affects newborns in Guinea-Bissau. Local ...

Bill Jenkins, a government epidemiologist who tried to expose the unethical Tuskegee syphilis study in the 1960s and devoted the rest of his career to fighting racism in health care, died Feb. 17 in ...

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. Based on documents ...

AMES, Iowa -- Twenty years ago, then-President Bill Clinton issued a formal apology for the U.S. Public Health Service's 40-year Tuskegee Syphilis Study. During the study, 600 poor African-American ...