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

Bill Jenkins had already started a promising career in public health in the mid-1960s when he learned about one of the darkest chapters in American medical history: the Tuskegee syphilis experiment.

For almost 40 years starting in the 1930s, as government researchers purposely let hundreds of Black men die of syphilis in Alabama so they could study the disease, a foundation in New York covered ...

The CDC Foundation has introduced a scholarship initiative designed for the descendants of the Black men who were subjects of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. On Feb. 7, the CDC Foundation introduced a ...

In 1495, a devastating infection began to sweep across Europe, causing pustules and sores to erupt on people’s bodies and faces. Accusatory finger-pointing about the scourge, syphilis, began almost ...

*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 ...

From exclusion to inclusion: participation in biomedical research and the legacy of the U.S. Public Health syphilis study at Tuskegee / Vivian W. Pinn -- Of thanks and forgiveness / James H. Jones -- ...

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