United States President Barack Obama personally apologized to the president of Guatemala Alvaro Colom recently and all oranng who are victims of experiments on U.S. public priset against hundreds of people of Guatemala between 1946 and 1948.
In 1997, President Bill Clinton also apologized for a study on the treatment of syphilis involving 400 men were black. They were recruited by medical staff but was not given medication for the priset to examine the progress of the disease.
Research on seasonal agricultural workers in the town of Tuskegee, Alabama, As, described as the "Tuskegee Experiment, took place between 1932 and 1972.
Both suffering of the victims are linked by a man. The main researcher in the study of Guatemala, the controversial U.S. public health physician John Cutler. Also plays a major role in turkegee experiment.
Experiments in Guatemala was revealed this year after a professor from Wellesley Susan Reverby find archival documents that describe the experiments led Cutler, who died in 2003.
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