Guatemala

Panel gives US govt funded clinical research clean bill of health

Michael Cook | 17 December 2011

Current rules and regulations provide adequate safeguards to mitigate risk in clinical trial, says the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues. After a survey of federally-sponsored research involving human volunteers after a scandal over highly unethical treatment of Guatemalan patients in the late 1940s by doctors in the Public Health Service, Commission basically gave American research a clean bill of health.

Interview: John D. Arras on the Guatemala syphilis study

Michael Cook | 26 September 2011

Bioethics commission rules Guatemalan STD research unethical

Jared Yee | 31 August 2011

US researchers violated ethical boundaries when they deliberately infected Guatemalan prisoners, mental health patients and prostitutes with sexually transmitted diseases in a 1940s research project, a presidential commission concluded on Tuesday.

Guatemalans were victims of US syphilis study in 1940s

29 May 2011

The horrendous syphilis experiment conducted by American doctors on Guatemalan prisoners and soldiers is finally getting some news coverage.

Bioethics panel told no guarantee against unethical research

Jared Yee | 09 March 2011

Rules have not changed behaviour, experts say

Obama calls for investigation into Guatamala STD study

Michael Cook | 27 November 2010

Commission to report in September

US apologizes for 1940s unethical research in Guatemala

Michael Cook | 02 October 2010

696 people infected with syphilis

Will adoption have to compete with surrogate mothers?

Jared Yee | 04 June 2010

Worrying signs in Guatemala