In her debut novel from 2020, author Megan Giddings writes about a young Black woman who drops out of college after the death of her grandmother, determined to find a high-paying job that will help ...

Medical homes are a simple, compelling idea: Give primary-care doctors resources to reduce preventable medical crises for diabetics, asthmatics and others with chronic illness, and it will reduce ...

Health and medicine is more than just biological—societal forces can get under your skin and cause illness. Medical sociologists like me study these forces by treating society itself as our laboratory ...

The specter of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study inevitably looms over talk of human subjects in medical research. The well-known case involved the U.S. Public Health Service, which, from 1932 to 1972, ...

AMES, Iowa -- Twenty years ago, then-President Bill Clinton issued a formal apology for the U.S. Public Health Service's 40-year Tuskegee Syphilis Study. During the study, 600 poor African-American ...

Baneful Medicine, currently on view at the Anya and Andrew Shiva Gallery at John Jay College, posits two historical events as the exhibition’s conceptual foundations: Joseph Mengele’s experiments on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The horrors of Nazi medical experiments during World War II are widely known, but Japan's Unit 731 in occupied China remains a ...

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 ...

A new database tells the stories of victims of forced medical research during the Nazi era. What role do the specimens and findings from that time play in modern medicine and research?Forced medical ...

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 ...