Outrage of the Month: Our Broken System for Protecting Human Research Subjects

Read more in Public Citizen’s December Health LetterFrom 1946 to 1948, the U.S. Public Health Service (USPHS) conducted highly unethical medical research in Guatemala (1). Some of the research involved deliberately infecting people with sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), such as syphilis and gonorrhea, without their consent (2). In 2011,…

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Outrage of the Month: Our Broken System for Protecting Human Research Subjects