In the past, some psychological experiments were run in frightening and unethical ways. From using children to experimenting ...

The U.S. is giving $1.6 million to researchers to study how the hepatitis B vaccine affects newborns in Guinea-Bissau. Local ...

It’s pretty important to have strong ethics even when pursuing scientific knowledge. We, in what I think most would agree is a positive move, have drawn a line at which information comes at too high a ...

The specter of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study inevitably looms over talk of human subjects in medical research. The well-known case involved the U.S. Public Health Service, which, from 1932 to 1972, ...

As part of a challenge study conducted during the pandemic, 34 healthy volunteers were deliberately infected with SARS-CoV-2 to assess the potential cognitive impacts of COVID-19. Everything about the ...

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James is a published author with multiple pop-history and science books to his name. He specializes in history, space, strange science, and anything out of the ordinary.View full profile James is a ...

Gary Webster, one of 122 children with haemophilia who attended the Lord Mayor's Treloar's College, said the sum offered by ...