Nov 6, 2023

Alabama's Worst Medical Malfeasance

The digital records of The Tuskegee Experiments have been released, reports The Washington Post.

In a news release, the National Library of Medicine says digitizing the documents will “ensure this chapter in history is never repeated and build greater trust in current biomedical research through transparency.”

Hannibal Square Heritage Center - The U.S. Public Health Service began the  Tuskegee Syphilis Study in Macon County, Alabama. Over the course of 40  years, more than 400 poor Black men were

Inside The Horrific Tuskegee Experiment That Let Black Men Die Slowly 

In 1932, officials from the U.S. Public Health Service recruited 600 impoverished Black men in Macon County, Ala., promising them years of free medical care, burial insurance and treatment for an ailment known as “bad blood.”(Source Washington Post story)

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