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40 Years of Human Experimentation in America: The Tuskegee Study

25 Jan 2019

Starting in 1932, 600 African American men from Macon County, Alabama were enlisted to partake in a scientific experiment on syphilis. The “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male,”...

The Viagra Condom

31 May 2017

Condoms are not used often enough, leading to more cases of STIs and unplanned pregnancies. But now a revolutionary new design may be able to encourage safer sex. A British biotechnology firm has...

Club Med Dermatitis

20 Mar 2017

The young lady had just returned from a fun-filled vacation at Club Med.  The next day she was presented with a souvenir she didn't bargain for, a tender rash on both thighs.  Off she went to the...

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