Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this 1950s file photo released by the National Archives, men included in a syphilis study pose for a photo in Tuskegee, Ala.

Peter Buxtun has died at age 86. He is known as the whistleblower who revealed the U.S. government was leaving Black men untreated for syphilis during a study in Tuskegee, Ala. For nearly 40 years, ...

The study is often blamed for distrust of the U.S. health care system. It’s not that simple. “We were all hard-working men … and citizens of the United States.” Herman Shaw, 1997 Born in Alabama in ...

Thirty-five years ago, the covers were pulled off the Tuskegee syphilis experiment conducted by the Macon County Public Health Service. Although it certainly wasn’t the first or last of racist ...

CDC Director Rochelle Walensky was ripped for stating in a tweet that the agency will honor the “suffering & sacrifice” of hundreds of African American men to mark the 50th anniversary of the end of ...

Fifty years after officials halted one of the most unethical public health studies in United States history, the societal effects of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and the health injustices it represents ...

For nearly 40 years, the U.S. Public Health Service left hundreds of Black men in Tuskegee, Ala., untreated for syphilis. It was part of a study that was only stopped after whistleblower Peter Buxtun ...