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The story of medicine throughout history can be dark, messy, and riddled with gruesome events. The never-ending journey towards more developed and perfected healthcare has inevitably seen its fair share of honest mistakes, but not every atrocity committed in the name of medicine and science was an …
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As the Trump administration continues to make significant cuts to NIH budgets and personnel and to freeze billions of dollars of funding to major research universities – citing ideological concerns – there’s more being threatened than just progress in science and medicine. Something valuable but …
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There’s been a quiet but important sea change in America’s framework for conducting experiments on humans. It centers on a provision tucked into a law, then quietly implemented by the FDA. This provision reverses decades of ethical tenets that were designed to prevent horrific research abuses that …
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The path from the atrocities of Nuremberg and Tuskegee to today’s robust ethics of medical research has not been easy.In response to these horrific events, a remarkable global consensus emerged, across countries in very different parts of the world and with very different types of governments: …
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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 scientific research. PHS, in collaboration with the Tuskegee Institute, conducted the study, which …
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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 “longest-running non-therapeutic experiment on human beings in medical history.” Departing from their …
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A panel of medical and historical experts recently gathered to discuss the complex issue of medical mistrust in clinical trials among Black Americans, exploring the historical roots of this mistrust and ways to rebuild trust and encourage participation going forward. The panel, hosted by …
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The Associated Press is finishing up 2025 by remembering notable newsmakers who died this year. One may be familiar to longtime listeners to Alabama Public Radio. Pete Buxton died in May at the age of eighty six. He was the federal health care worker who blew the whistle on the Tuskegee Syphilis …
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A small study revealed that many Black Americans harbor distrust towards medical research (more than their non-Black counterparts), potentially hindering their participation in clinical trials. This reluctance stems from a complex interplay of historical, cultural, and personal factors. Historical …
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The word “Tuskegee” has long embodied the painful symbol of medical racism, epitomizing how ethnically uninformed research practices have harmed Black Americans.It is impossible to erase this painful history. But we — one of us working for Tuskegee University, the other for Southern Research — are …
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