Guatemala - Facts About STD's

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. government agencies fund thousands of studies on human subjects, but do not have a very good handle on the basic information about that research -- possibly putting participants in harm's way, a presidential panel of reviewers has found.The ...

A bioethics panel that investigated a Guatemalan sex disease scandal urged the US government Thursday to consider compensating victims who are harmed by participating in future research.The President's Bioethics Commission was tasked by Barack Obama after revelations last year that 1,300 people ...

A bioethics panel convened in the wake of a Guatemalan sex disease scandal urged the US government Thursday to consider compensating victims who are harmed by participating in future research.The President's Bioethics Commission was authorized by Barack Obama after revelations last year ...

VIENNA (Reuters) - Criminal gangs are selling more cheap and easy-to-make amphetamine-type drugs, such as ecstasy and crystal meth, in new markets, and cannabis is now the only more widely used illegal drug, a United Nations report released on Tuesday said.The number ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. government researchers must have known they were violating ethical standards by deliberately infecting Guatemalan prison inmates and mental patients with syphilis for an experiment in the 1940s, according to a presidential commission.The U.S.-funded research in Guatemala did not ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. presidential commission will release on Monday its findings on a government research project that deliberately infected Guatemalan prison inmates and mental patients with syphilis in the 1940s.The conclusions have consequences for U.S. diplomacy and will impact the ...

Seven Guatemalans filed a class action lawsuit in Washington over a 1940s US study in which hundreds of people in the Central American nation were deliberately infected with syphilis and gonorrhea without their consent.The suit by the Guatemalans, filed against the US ...

Guatemala on Wednesday issued a formal request for full disclosure on how US scientists deliberately infected hundreds of people here with sexually transmitted diseases from 1946-1948."All of the information has been requested officially but it is still at the university where they ...

The U.S. government apologized Friday for a previously unreported experiment that infected hundreds of un-consenting Guatemalans with syphilis in the 1940s. She found that between 1946 and 1948, 696 individuals at the Guatemala National Penitentiary, the National Mental Health Hospital and military ...

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