New York (AP) — Peter Buxtun, the whistleblower who revealed that the US government allowed hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama to go untreated for syphilis in what became known as the Tuskegee ...

TUSKEGEE, Ala. (AP) — Decades later, it's still hard to grasp what the federal government did to hundreds of black men in rural Alabama – even if you're among their descendants, lighting candles in ...

A cache of documents related to the Tuskegee syphilis study – a 40-year experiment that tracked infected Black men without treating them – has now been digitized for public use, the National Library ...

Black communities continue to grapple with the enduring trauma inflicted by the Tuskegee Syphilis experiments, which spanned over four decades from 1932 to 1972. However, the descendants of Black men ...

*Peter Buxtun, the whistleblower who courageously unveiled one of the most notorious medical research scandals in U.S. history, has passed away at the age of 86. Buxtun, who succumbed to Alzheimer’s ...

Ancient DNA from 5,500-year-old remains in Colombia reveals syphilis-related bacteria existed some 3,000 years earlier than ...

Despite increased STI testing in US emergency departments from 2020 to 2024, syphilis screening is often missed, particularly ...

Congenital syphilis is preventable, but nonetheless, the disease is on the rise in countries like Australia, a study finds. This mirrors trends in the U.S. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

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