EDITOR'S NOTE — On July 25, 1972, Jean Heller, a reporter on The Associated Press investigative team, then called the Special Assignment Team, broke news that rocked the nation. Based on documents ...

CNN — 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 ...

Sixty-five years after the federal government undertook its syphilis research project on unsuspecting African-American men, President Clinton apologized to the survivors and all victims' families. In ...

Percy Gaines was a patient in the Tuskegee Syphilis Study for 40 years. He was sometimes given shots, tonics or pills and told they were for syphilis; he and his wife believed they were treatments.

Hospice care offers comfort, dignity and emotional support at the end of life, but it remains underused in Black communities due to misconceptions, limited access and historical distrust of the ...

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Tuskegee is the one-word answer some people give as a reason they’re avoiding COVID-19 vaccines. A new ad campaign launched Wednesday with relatives of men who unwittingly became part of the infamous ...

Attorney Fred Gray represents several Tuskegee study survivors, who believed they were participating in a public health program. Sen. James Allen is proposing compensation for surviving participants.