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You must watch Ken Burns’ PBS series on America and the Holocaust. This documentary about the Holocaust was made for our times. To understand the darker elements of America, it is required viewing.

This documentary about the Holocaust was made for our times. To understand the darker elements of America, it is required viewing.

Amid developments with COVID, monkeypox, polio and other health issues, trust is the "glue" between doctors and patients, said one doctor said; but some communities have reason to be distrustful.

Heller, who now lives in Southport near Wilmington, was the only woman on a small Associated Press special assignment team. In 1972, she broke the news of how the U.S. government denied medical treatment to hundreds of Alabama Black men that they knew to have syphilis.

Jean Heller was toiling away on the floor of the 1972 Democratic National Convention in Miami when an AP colleague from the opposite end of the country handed her a thin manila...

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Interviews of medical staff that participated in the infamous study are rare, but the nurse directly involved did speak about it in 1977.

The men were told they were being treated for “bad blood.” In truth, the federal government enrolled around 600 black men from rural Alabama in a 40-year study of untreated syphilis.

<p>Fifty years ago, Jean Heller revealed the horrifying truth that the US government had been denying hundreds of Black men treatment so they could study the progress of the disease. </p>

On July 25, 1972, Jean Heller shocked the world with a story of what is now known as the “Tuskegee Study.” Fifty years later, it still casts a long shadow