Clearing the myths of time: Tuskegee revisited

More than a quarter of black Americans questioned in a recent survey believe that AIDS was produced in a laboratory, and 16% believe that it was created by the US government to control the black population. In attempting to explain why such mistaken notions are so widely held, Laura Bogart, lead author of the study, says: “Conspiracy beliefs stem from current and historical discrimination against blacks in our healthcare system, including the Tuskegee syphilis study”. The Tuskegee study has become the archetype of unethical research and racism in medicine. However, by citing Tuskegee, is Bogart merely invoking one set of conspiracy beliefs to explain another? Between 1932 and 1972, the US Public Health Service (USPHS) studied 600 black men, 399 with untreated latent syphilis and 201 uninfected controls, living around Tuskegee, Macon County, Alabama. Although there was no study protocol, the purpose of the Tuskegee experiments seems to have been to observe patients with untreated latent syphilis to autopsy and verify the presence or absence of syphilitic destructive lesions. According to a detailed analysis of the Tuskegee study by Robert M White in Archives of Internal Medicine, USPHS officers believed that the study “should forever dispel the rather general belief that syphilis is a disease of small consequence to the negro”

Corrigendum: Treatments of Advanced Non‑Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) in an Italian Center: Drug Utilization and the Treatment Costs of Innovative Drugs

There was an error in Discussion section at page 36 in this article by Piantedosi et al. [Farmeconomia. Health economics and therapeutic pathways 2019; 20(1): 27-41; https://doi.org/10.7175/fe.v20i1.1376]. The online version has been corrected on June 5, 201

Corrigendum: An Integrated Management Model of Patients With Atrial Fibrillation: The Experience of the Local Health Unit Tuscany North-West

There was an error in the description of GLORIA-AF registry program at page 10 in this Supplement by Casolo et al. [Farmeconomia. Health economics and therapeutic pathways 2019; 20(Suppl 1): 3-16; https://doi.org/10.7175/fe.v20i1S.1454]. The online version has been corrected on February 12, 2020

The Events Leading Up to the Trial

In the early hours of May 22, 1969, heavily armed police broke down the door of the New Haven headquarters of the Black Panther Party, arrested seven people, searched the premises and seized personal items, party literature and party funds. An eighth person was arrested in Bridgeport. All eight were held without bail until bench warrants for their arrest could be issued from the New Haven Superior Court. The arrests were front-page news in New Haven the next day. An eight-column headline in the New Haven Register identified those taken into custody as Panthers. They were alleged to have participated in the kangaroo trial and torture murder of Alex Rackley, a Black Panther from New York whose body had been discovered in a swamp near Middlefield, Connecticut, late in the afternoon of May 21

GI Justice in Vietnam: An Interview with the Lawyers Military Defense Committee

According to Catch-22, they can do anything you cannot stop them from doing. In a war zone, the range of anythings expands to diabolical extremes. The Lawyers Military Defense Committee originated to un-catch Gis snarled in court-martial prosecutions in Vietnam. Their mission has made the attorneys of LMDC about as popular with the U. S. Command as General Giap. Early this year one of LMDC attorneys representing a black GI charged with murder argued that the GI was being deprived due process of law because the U. S. Command prevented the LMDC from operating effectively. Because the command allowed no military telephone lines to the defense group, the attorney claimed, he had to try 233 times to complete just four telephone calls to his military co-counsel in the case. The command also refused to grant the group mail and priority travel privileges. A full-colonel military judge hearing the attorney\u27s claims said he agreed that the GI\u27s right to civilian counsel had been abridged but that\u27s just a fact of life in Vietnam. Since then things have gotten more pleasant for the LMDC. The difficulty of getting justice for servicemen in Vietnam remains. Several members of the group this fall discussed their difficulties and achievements in response to questions by the Yale Review of Law and Social Action. The following is a transcription of their discussion

Introduction

The decision of the California Supreme Court in August of 1971 in the case of Serrano v. Priest has unleashed an unprecedented fury of activity in the area of education finance reform. Advocates of reform in the systems by which states and localities finance public education had in 1969 been given what seemed to be an important setback when the United States Supreme Court refused to use the standard of educational need to declare invalid the Illinois system of financing public education. The result in that case, whose plaintiffs had based their claim for relief on the federal equal protection clause, required that a new approach be adopted in the effort to restructure education finance systems. That new approach had been begun in California in mid-1968, and with the aid of the negative guidance provided by the Supreme Court\u27s rejection of the educational need standard, the attorneys in the case were able to refine their approach to meet the judicial desire for manageable standards. The decision in Serrano v. Priest was the result of that effort. In the months since Serrano was decided, two other decisions have reaffirmed this approach to the education finance problem-Van Dusartz v. Hatfield, decided by a Minnesota District Court in mid-October, 1971, and Rodriguez v. San Antonio Independent School District, decided by a three-judge District Court panel in Texas on December 23. Dozens of similar lawsuits are pending in other jurisdictions around the country, and the number of such suits is still growing

Care and Repair of Clothing

This circular, created by the Agricultural Extension Service at South Dakota State College, provides information in regards to the care and repair of clothing in the Home Economics Department during 1922

Erratum: Effectiveness of Long-Acting Injectable Antipsychotics in Schizophrenia: A Literature Review and Bayesian Meta-Analysis Informing Economic Considerations

There was an error in the relapse rate reduction reported in Figure 2 in this article by Zaniolo et al. [Farmeconomia. Health economics and therapeutic pathways 2019; 20: 13-24; https://doi.org/10.7175/fe.v20i1.1393]. The online version has been corrected on 13 February 2019