One of the most unethical human experiments of all time involved scaring a young child called Little Albert, and they went ...

From the first successful kidney transplant in 1954, modern organ transplantation has often been linked to the horrors of Frankenstein. While people have grown to accept kidney and liver transplants ...

The astounding revelation that U.S. medical researchers intentionally gave Guatemalans gonorrhea and syphilis more than 60 years ago is so horrifying that we want to believe that what happened then ...

AI has passed a new benchmark, scoring better than the average human on a recognized creativity test involving 100,000 people ...

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, ...

Human head transplants are also known as cephalosomatic anastomosis, and at the moment, are not actually possible and likely won't be before 2030. Some researchers have tested a human head transplant ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Tony Bradley covers the intersection of tech and entertainment. In 1971, a groundbreaking experiment was conducted in the basement ...

The clash between African health leaders and the Trump administration over a controversial vaccine study in Guinea-Bissau has quickly become a test of who sets the ethical rules for research on the ...

The U.S. government drilled a hole into retired Air Force Col. Robert Lindseth’s heart more than 60 years ago because the country wanted to go to the moon and it was not sure how to get there and back ...