U.S. government medical researchers intentionally infected hundreds of people in Guatemala, including institutionalized mental patients, with gonorrhea and syphilis without their knowledge or ...

An investigation into American medical experiments in Guatemala in the 1940s has uncovered "gruesome" new details about how subjects were treated. Doctors repeatedly infected people with sexually ...

More than 700 people have filed a billion-dollar lawsuit against Johns Hopkins Hospital and University.Mobile users tap here to watch videoThe lawsuit alleges that Hopkins was the driving force behind ...

WASHINGTON (AP) – A judge has dismissed a lawsuit against U.S. officials by Guatemalans who had been subjected to sexually transmitted diseases by U.S. researchers in the 1940s. The suit, on behalf of ...

WASHINGTONWASHINGTON — Guatemalans who had been subjected to sexually transmitted diseases by U.S. researchers in the 1940s have appealed a judge’s dismissal of their lawsuit. U.S. District Judge ...

The U.S. Public Health Service’s sexually transmitted disease (STD) experiments in Guatemala are an important case study not only in human subjects research transgressions but also in the response to ...

U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton ruled this week that the Guatemalans could not sue the United States for grievances that happened overseas. The judge also dismissed claims against current Obama ...

It is a fact that the U.S. government has conducted medical experiments on people of color such as in the Tuskeegee syphilis study. But what is not known is the full extent of medical experimentation ...

Guatemalans who had been subjected to sexually transmitted diseases by U.S. researchers in the 1940s have appealed a judge's dismissal of their lawsuit. U.S. District Judge Reggie Walton dismissed the ...

The United States has rejected the grounds of a lawsuit stemming from experiments involving sexually transmitted diseases and human subjects in Guatemala between 1946 and 1948. At the same time, the ...

WASHINGTON - The United States issued an unusual apology Friday to Guatemala for conducting experiments in the 1940s in which doctors infected soldiers, prisoners and mental patients with syphilis and ...