Trying to overcome the Tuskegee legacy of distrust

Article Abstract:

The National Cancer Institute and other medical research organizations are working to overcome African Americans' reluctance to participate in medical studies because of abusive research such as the Tuskegee Syphilis Study. In that study 399 African American men with syphilis were tracked by the US Public Health Service for forty years, but the men were never informed of their condition or given any treatment. Researchers are concerned that a lack of African American volunteers will skew research on cancer and other diseases.

Medical Research, Influence, Public opinion, Human experimentation in medicine, Human medical experimentation, Miss Evers' Boys (Television program)

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President apologizes, calls syphilis study 'morally wrong.'(President Clinton; Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male)

Article Abstract:

President Clinton made a public apology for the Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male, which denied syphilis patients penicillin treatments between 1932 and 1972. The Public Health Service study allowed 399 African-Americans to go without treatment and misrepresented their health status and care. The study was deemed 'racist' and 'morally wrong' by Clinton.

Viral Disease R&D, Administration of Public Health Programs, Admin. of public health programs, Public Health Service, Clinton, Bill, Viral research, Speeches, lectures and essays, United States. Public Health Service

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