Kayte Spector-Bagdady's work on Bioethics Commission Report highlighted

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Thu, April 12, 2018

The US Public Health Service exposed more than 1,300 Guatemalans to syphilis, gonorrhea, and other sexually transmitted infections without consent in the late 1940s.  Kayte Spector-Bagdady and Paul Lombardo worked on the 2011 US Presidential Bioethics Commission report condemning the Cold War experiments as “unconscionable,” which spurred calls for recompense of the victims, their descendants, and families. According to a new report by medical historians, human tissues from unethical experiments conducted in Guatemala in the 1940s might still rest on the shelves of US government labs.