US apologizes for ’40s syphilis study in Guatemala
American scientists deliberately infected prisoners and patients in a mental hospital in Guatemala with syphilis 60 years ago, a recently unearthed experiment that prompted U.S. officials to apologize Friday and declare outrage over "such reprehen...
Clinical Trials Update: Oct. 1, 2010
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U.S. apologizes for syphilis experiment in Guatemala
The United States apologized on Friday for an experiment conducted in the 1940s in which U.S. government researchers deliberately infected Guatemalan prison inmates, women and mental patients with syphilis.
Kidney Disease Linked to Future Heart Disease, Stroke Risk
THURSDAY, Sept. 30 (HealthDay News) -- Patients battling chronic kidney
disease face a higher risk for stroke and heart disease, new research
reveals.
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