Most people think the Tuskegee Syphilis Study was a secret government experiment uncovered by a brave whistleblower. It wasn’t. For forty years, the U.S. Public Health Service openly studied hundreds of Black men in Alabama who had syphilis—without treating them, even after penicillin became the known cure. What’s rarely discussed is that it was never actually hidden. The study appeared in peer-reviewed medical journals. The Milbank Memorial Fund publicly supported it. Articles were published...
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Most people think the Tuskegee Syphilis Study was a secret government experiment uncovered by a brave whistleblower. It wasn’t. For forty years, the U.S. Public Health Service openly studied hundreds of Black men in Alabama who had syphilis—without treating them, even after penicillin became the known cure. What’s rarely discussed is that it was never actually hidden. The study appeared in peer-reviewed medical journals. The Milbank Memorial Fund publicly supported it. Articles were published...
HPV Vaccine in the U.S.: Myths, Facts, and Why It Matters
Shameless Care Podcast
36 minutes
1 month ago
HPV Vaccine in the U.S.: Myths, Facts, and Why It Matters
The human papillomavirus (HPV) is the most common sexually transmitted infection in the United States, with nearly 80% of people exposed at some point in their lives. While most infections clear on their own, certain HPV types can cause genital warts or even cancers of the cervix, anus, penis, and throat. The good news? We have a vaccine that prevents the vast majority of these outcomes — and it’s changing public health as we know it. In this episode of the Shameless Care Podcast, Anna and R...
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Most people think the Tuskegee Syphilis Study was a secret government experiment uncovered by a brave whistleblower. It wasn’t. For forty years, the U.S. Public Health Service openly studied hundreds of Black men in Alabama who had syphilis—without treating them, even after penicillin became the known cure. What’s rarely discussed is that it was never actually hidden. The study appeared in peer-reviewed medical journals. The Milbank Memorial Fund publicly supported it. Articles were published...
