Racism that fueled the syphilis study still permeates the U.S. health care system, causing disparities in access to medical ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. UC San Francisco has apologized for its invasive dermatological experiments of the 1960s and 1970s, in which 2,600 state prisoners ...

Brown is the vice president of medical affairs and patient advocacy at Southern Research and project lead for Catalyst. Sodeke is the resident bioethicist and professor of bioethics at the Center for ...

From dangerous scientific falsehoods to celebrity conspiracy theories, the team scours niche corners of social media, conducts interviews, requests public records and more to set the record straight.

As a medical student and researcher, I was shocked by the brazen inequity of the trial.  Randomized controlled trials have ...

Factually, the proposal rejects medically accepted standards of care.

SAN FRANCISCO - A prominent California medical school has apologized for conducting dozens of unethical medical experiments on at least 2,600 incarcerated men in the 1960s and 1970s, including putting ...

Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein served as a chilling prophecy of the ethical dilemmas that science could pose. From the Tuskegee Syphilis Study to the CIA’s MKUltra program and the recent ...

The Hippocratic oath serves as a mission statement for physicians, articulating principles that guide their work. Its tenets include beneficence, nonmaleficence and confidentiality, but they are often ...

The pursuit of scientific knowledge has driven humanity to remarkable achievements — cures for diseases, revolutionary technologies, and breakthroughs that have saved millions of lives. Yet this noble ...

Sure, psychological and medical experiments can have adverse effects. Tim Skellett has been on "both sides--as a subject and as an experimenter." He explains at The Guardian: "When I first went to ...