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BMJ 2005;331:1345 (3 December), doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7528.1345-a

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Clinical Cases and Images is a useful resource that brings togethervarious pearls of medical wisdom and aims to bridge the gapbetween clinical theory and practice (http://clinicalcases.blogspot.com).This well organised site contains a good collection of casehistories, with links to imaging, and clinical examination andprocedure websites, making this a feature rich site with a strongfocus on clinical learning.
I had not heard of the TuskegeeSyphilis Study—a researchprogramme under which adequatetreatment for syphilis was withheldfrom a group of poor blackmen with the disease—untilI read the contribution fromthe US Centers for Disease Controland Prevention (www.cdc.gov/nchstp/od/tuskegee/time.htm).Althoughthe Alabama based study was ethically unsound, it lastedfor40 years, from 1932 to 1972. This web page is a clear summaryof this disturbing case, which led to a change in the rulesgoverning research on human subjects. . . . [Full text of this article]