Johns Hopkins, Others Lose Bid To Kill Syphilis Study Suit

By Mike LaSusa (January 4, 2019, 10:44 PM EST) -- Johns Hopkins University, Bristol-Meyers Squibb Co. and the Rockefeller Foundation, accused of participating in controversial syphilis experiments in Guatemala during the 1940s and 1950s, failed to show that their status as corporations protects them from liability under the Alien Tort Statute, a Maryland federal judge said Thursday....

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