A cache of documents related to the Tuskegee syphilis study — a 40-year experiment that tracked infected Black men without treating them — has been digitized for public use, the National Library of ...
Researchers at the Universities of Basel and Zurich have discovered the genetic material of the pathogen Treponema pallidum in the bones of people who died in Brazil 2,000 years ago. This is the ...
Syphilis has been rising sharply in the United States, with especially high rates in Southern states. Now, a new study from Tulane University researchers suggests the long-term infection may carry ...
A 5,500-year-old skeleton from the Americas has yielded the oldest genetic evidence yet of a bacterium closely related to the one that causes syphilis, forcing researchers to rethink when and where ...
Peter Buxtun, a whistleblower who exposed and helped end the Tuskegee syphilis study, a four-decade experiment in which the U.S. Public Health Service used hundreds of Black men as human guinea pigs, ...
Transgender women and Black gay and bisexual men in Chicago are nearly twice as likely to contract syphilis at some point in their lives as white gay men, according to a new study conducted by ...
Syphilis remains a significant public health challenge, particularly in pregnant women, where maternal infection with Treponema pallidum can lead to severe adverse pregnancy outcomes. Epidemiological ...
Despite a 127% increase in screenings of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the emergency department (ED) from 2020 to 2024, only 9.9% of patients were screened for syphilis, according to a ...
Syphilis has been rising sharply in the United States, with especially high rates in Southern states. Now, a new study from Tulane University researchers suggests the long-term infection may carry ...
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