NEW YORK (AP) - Peter Buxtun, the whistleblower who revealed that the U.S. government allowed hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama to go untreated for syphilis in what became known as the Tuskegee ...

In the early 1960s, Peter Buxtun was tracing sexually transmitted infections for the U.S. Public Health Service in San Francisco when he wandered into the coffee room of his clinic. There he heard an ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — 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.

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 ...

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 ...

*Peter Buxtun, the whistleblower who courageously unveiled one of the most notorious medical research scandals in U.S. history, has passed away at the age of 86. Buxtun, who succumbed to Alzheimer’s ...

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NEW YORK — Peter Buxtun, the whistleblower who revealed that the U.S. government allowed hundreds of Black men in rural Alabama to go untreated for syphilis in what became known as the Tuskegee study, ...

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The whistleblower who exposed the Tuskegee syphilis study that left hundreds of Black men untreated has died at age 86. Peter Buxtun died in May of Alzheimer's disease in California.