U.S. national security officials say they have made significant changes to their experiments on human subjects since a botched research project in 1953 led to the death of an LSD-drugged CIA scientist ...

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 ...

The United States once sold itself as a radical bet on human equality, self-government, and the rule of law, a political experiment that promised ordinary people control over their own fate. Two and a ...

President Shapiro is heading an effort to rethink the way human-subject experiments are regulated. As chair of the National Bioethics Advisory Committee — commissioned by President Clinton in 1995 — ...

The military exposed thousands of servicemen to radioactivity when it called them to participate in nuclear weapons tests, including Operation Teapot in 1955. One was Eldridge Jones, who later ...