The abrupt end of USAID-funded clinical trials is profoundly unethical
USAID’s stop-work order threatens to undo decades of progress in medical research ethics and cause harm to clinical trial participants.
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Tuskegee Syphilis Study: Failing to Treat Black Men for 40 Years
The Tuskegee syphilis study, also known as the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) Untreated Syphilis Study at Tuskegee, is one of the most infamous chapters in the history of U.S. public health and …
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Why Blacks Are Underrepresented In Clinical Trials
There has been a general distrust of the healthcare system among some Black Americans since the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study. On July 26, 1972, the New York Times reported on what it called the …
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4 Experts Discuss Medical Mistrust in Clinical Trials: Honoring the Past, Embracing the Future
A panel of medical and historical experts recently gathered to discuss the complex issue of medical mistrust in clinical trials among Black Americans.
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Remembering the man who blew the whistle on the Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment
The Associated Press is finishing up 2025 by remembering notable news makers who died this year. One may be familiar to longtime listeners to Alabama Public Radio. Pete Buxton died in May at the age …
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Black People Have the Most Distrust in Clinical Research. Here’s Why
A small study revealed that many Black Americans harbor distrust towards medical research, hindering their participation in clinical trials.
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How to bring more Black Americans into clinical research: Address the root causes of medical skepticism
Real progress in health inequities requires meeting communities where they are and addressing the root causes of medical skepticism.
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Medical exploitation of Black people in America goes far beyond the cells stolen from Henrietta Lacks that produced modern day miracles
Medical exploitation is an often overlooked part of Black history and partly explains the mistrust that members of the Black community have for the medical industry.
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Peter Buxtun: US government employee who exposed racist and unethical Tuskegee syphilis study
UC Law San Francisco In 1965 Peter Buxtun had just started working as a contact tracer with the Public Health Service (PHS) in San Francisco when he overheard colleagues talking about a syphilis study …
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Remembering the Tuskegee experiment: when rural Alabama Black men were intentionally exposed to syphilis with no treatment
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 precursor …
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