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The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male [1] (informally referred to as the Tuskegee Experiment or Tuskegee Syphilis Study) was a study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the United States Public Health Service (PHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on a group of nearly 400 African American men with syphilis.
In another case, several epileptic women in Guatemala were injected with syphilis below the base of their skull. One was left paralyzed for two months by meningitis. Cutler said he was testing a theory that the injections could cure epilepsy. [7] Approximately half of those infected as part of the study were treated for the diseases they ...
The unethical Tuskegee Syphilis Study ended 50 years ago. A new public health study from Auburn and Tulane examines its lasting impact.
Photo Illustration by Thomas Levinson/The Daily Beast/GettyFifty years ago today (July 25), the Associated Press pulled the curtain back on the infamous Tuskegee Study.U.S. Public Health Service ...
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On July 25, 1972, the public heard that a government medical experiment had let hundreds of African-American men with syphilis go untreated
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.
Forty years earlier, in 1932, federal scientists began studying 400 Black men in Tuskegee, Alabama, who were infected with syphilis. When antibiotics became available in the 1940s that could treat the disease, federal health officials ordered that the drugs be withheld. The study became an observation of how the disease ravaged the body over time.