Friday, 3 April 2015, BALTIMORE, MD - The Johns Hopkins Hospital System affiliated with The Johns Hopkins University (Johns Hopkins) widely regarded as one of the best of institutions of its kind in the world was sued for $1 billion on Wednesday by "study" participants as well as their spouses and children for Johns Hopkins' "substantial influence" including controlling advisory panels and planning and authorizing medical experiments in which study participants were intentionally infected with sexually transmitted diseases including syphilis, gonorrhea and other venereal diseases the Associated Press (AP) reports.
The plaintiffs number 750 study participants as well as their family members. According to the AP this is the latest suit over medical experiments allegedly substantially conducted by Johns Hopkins in Guatemala in the 1940s and 1950s in which the subjects were infected with venereal diseases under the auspices of a United States government program. One Johns Hopkins lawyer reportedly called the charges "baseless". Previously in 2012 a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit against the federal government based on the same medical experiments on unspecified grounds.
Interested readers may refer for to the below link for more information about the AP report including links for those interested in more information about gonorrhea, syphilis and venereal diseases.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/02/us/maryland-johns-hopkins-sued-over-disease-study.html?ref=todayspaper
Copyright 2015 Martin P. All World Rights Expressly Reserved
The plaintiffs number 750 study participants as well as their family members. According to the AP this is the latest suit over medical experiments allegedly substantially conducted by Johns Hopkins in Guatemala in the 1940s and 1950s in which the subjects were infected with venereal diseases under the auspices of a United States government program. One Johns Hopkins lawyer reportedly called the charges "baseless". Previously in 2012 a federal judge dismissed a lawsuit against the federal government based on the same medical experiments on unspecified grounds.
Interested readers may refer for to the below link for more information about the AP report including links for those interested in more information about gonorrhea, syphilis and venereal diseases.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/02/us/maryland-johns-hopkins-sued-over-disease-study.html?ref=todayspaper
Copyright 2015 Martin P. All World Rights Expressly Reserved
No comments:
Post a Comment