American pharmaceutical companies exploit poor and ignorant in Third World. Aug. 30, 2011— -- A commission set up last year by President Barack Obama has revealed that 83 Guatemalans died in U.S.

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Jonathan D. Moreno, University of Pennsylvania (THE CONVERSATION) Starting near the ...

The astounding revelation that U.S. medical researchers intentionally gave Guatemalans gonorrhea and syphilis more than 60 years ago is so horrifying that we want to believe that what happened then ...

WASHINGTON - The United States issued an unusual apology Friday to Guatemala for conducting experiments in the 1940s in which doctors infected soldiers, prisoners and mental patients with syphilis and ...