Morning Briefing

"Responding to U.S. experiments that infected Guatemalans with syphilis and gonorrhea in the 1940s, the Obama administration announced Tuesday that it will spend $1 million to study new rules for protecting medical research volunteers," and "[a]n additional $775,000 will go to fighting sexually transmitted diseases in Guatemala," the Washington Post reports (Vastag 1,10). "President Barack Obama, Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius all have apologized for the research, hidden for decades until a Wellesley College medical historian uncovered the records in 2009," the Associated Press/Boston Globe notes (Pickler, 1/10).