03-18-2008, 09:22 PM
<b>Did Tuskegee damage trust on clinical trials</b>?<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->MONTGOMERY, Alabama (AP) -- The infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study, a government experiment that charted the effects of the untreated disease on mostly poor and uneducated black men, was conducted for 40 years before it was exposed and ended in 1972 amid widespread condemnation.
The Tuskegee study plays a modest role in producing distrust, says Dr. Thomas LaVeist, study co-author.
A number of participants in the study died of the disease, which the men spread to women and to children at birth.
But does it still take a toll on the health of new generations of blacks?
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The Tuskegee study plays a modest role in producing distrust, says Dr. Thomas LaVeist, study co-author.
A number of participants in the study died of the disease, which the men spread to women and to children at birth.
But does it still take a toll on the health of new generations of blacks?
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