On this day, a health study began in Tuskegee, Alabama, where over 400 African American men were part of a project to learn more about syphilis, a serious disease. The men were told they would get free medical care, but doctors never gave them the treatment they needed. The study continued for 40 years without helping the men, even after medicine to cure the disease became available. This became one of the most tragic examples of unfair treatment in medical history.
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