The Tuskegee syphilis study’s shame echoes today ...Middle East

NY Daily News - Opinion
source : NY Daily News ( Middle East ) () 72
Fifty years ago today, the Associated Press pulled the curtain back on the infamous Tuskegee Study. U.S. Public Health Service doctors, reporter Jean Heller revealed, had for 40 years been withholding treatment from hundreds of Black men with syphilis. Worse yet, the doctors, who wanted to study the consequences of untreated syphilis, lied to their patients — telling them they had “bad blood” (a colloquial term often used to describe anemia, fatigue and other conditions), and administering vitamins, iron tonics, diagnostic spinal taps and other fake “treatments.”

Read More Details
Finally We wish PressBee provided you with enough information of ( The Tuskegee syphilis study’s shame echoes today )

Apple Storegoogle play

Also on site :

Most viewed in Opinion
Devastation Strikes Kyiv: Casualties Mount in Overnight Attacks
Devdiscourse - before 9 hours & 25 minute
Miranda Devine: Trump’s ‘spectacular’ Iran strike could carve his place in history as most courageous leader since Ronald Reagan
New York Post - before 11 hour & 23 minute
Siarhei Tsikhanouski's Long Road to Freedom: A Story of Resistance and Perseverance
Devdiscourse - before 8 hours & minute
Trinamool Congress Secures Commanding Victory in Kaliganj By-Election
Devdiscourse - before 5 hours & 4 minute
Zelenskiy's Strategic Visit to Britain: Reinforcing Ukraine's Defence
Devdiscourse - before 3 hours & 21 minute
UNHCR Warns of Looming Refugee Crisis Amid Israel-Iran Escalation
Devdiscourse - before 5 hours & 40 minute
Voices: Donald Trump’s gamble in Iran is bad news for the ‘Axis of Autocracies’
INDEPENDENT - before 2 hours & 23 minute
Debt Traps and Scams: Migrants' Financial Struggles in the UK
Devdiscourse - before 2 hours & 27 minute
FSIB Opens Search for Canara Bank's New Leadership
Devdiscourse - before 58 minute
A Governor's Tale: Survival and Resistance during India's Emergency Era
Devdiscourse - before 4 minute


Latest News

A Governor's Tale: Survival and Resistance during India's Emergency Era

before 4 minute

FSIB Opens Search for Canara Bank's New Leadership

before 58 minute

Voices: Donald Trump’s gamble in Iran is bad news for the ‘Axis of Autocracies’

before 2 hours & 23 minute

Debt Traps and Scams: Migrants' Financial Struggles in the UK

before 2 hours & 27 minute

Zelenskiy's Strategic Visit to Britain: Reinforcing Ukraine's Defence

before 3 hours & 21 minute

Trinamool Congress Secures Commanding Victory in Kaliganj By-Election

before 5 hours & 4 minute

UNHCR Warns of Looming Refugee Crisis Amid Israel-Iran Escalation

before 5 hours & 40 minute

Uttarakhand Panchayat Polls Stalled: High Court Halts Election Process

before 6 hours & 51 minute

Siarhei Tsikhanouski's Long Road to Freedom: A Story of Resistance and Perseverance

before 8 hours & minute

Devastation Strikes Kyiv: Casualties Mount in Overnight Attacks

before 9 hours & 25 minute

High-Stakes Headlines: Airline Cancellations, NATO Spending, and Energy Bill Cuts

before 10 hours & 51 minute

Miranda Devine: Trump’s ‘spectacular’ Iran strike could carve his place in history as most courageous leader since Ronald Reagan

before 11 hour & 23 minute

Russian Drone Attack: Kyiv Under Siege

before 11 hour & 43 minute

Heroic Churchgoers Avert Potential Mass Shooting in Michigan

before 12 hour & 52 minute

How Trump changed the future, kill the suicide bill and other commentary

before 13 hour & 44 minute