History is full of moments where the pursuit of knowledge crossed into something far darker. Governments and scientists, shielded by secrecy and institutional power, have conducted experiments on real ...

As the U.S. continues the push to get more Americans vaccinated against COVID-19, there is a renewed effort to address vaccine hesitancy, especially among African Americans. A new short film takes a ...

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 ...

Bill Jenkins, a government epidemiologist who tried to expose the unethical Tuskegee syphilis study in the 1960s and devoted the rest of his career to fighting racism in health care, died Feb. 17 in ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Update: A senior official at the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention announced Thursday that the study has been ...

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 ...