For years, he tried to expose the Tuskegee syphilis study, but no one would listen. By Maggie Jones One afternoon in the ...

The implications of this research are manifold. The study paints a grim picture of colonialism’s unintended consequences.

Nigeria has reaffirmed its leadership in the fight against mother-to-child transmission of HIV, syphilis and hepatitis during a high-level workshop, yesterday, in Geneva, Switzerland, which was ...

Of infants born to mothers with primary or secondary syphilis, up to 50% will be premature, stillborn, or die in the neonatal period; further, most of these children are born with congenital ...

The child was beloved by Enzo but sickly out of ... who attributed his bail-out to the sexually transmitted disease of ...

William the Conqueror's reign was a dark time in England—so it's fitting that when his end came, it was utterly gruesome.

This documented epidemic is now interpreted to be the first historical account of syphilis. The origin of syphilis is the subject of a decades-long debate. The late 15th century outbreak occurred ...

But there's evidence that 15th-century colonialists spread Syphilis worldwide. Syphilis and Christopher Columbus have more in common than you might think. Both touched down on new continents and ...

Syphilis was soon rampant across the Continent and beyond, but its origins continued to be fiercely debated, with some historians claiming it was actually home-grown. Now, scientists have carried ...

Accusatory finger-pointing about the scourge, syphilis, began almost immediately. The Italians called it “the French disease”; the French called it “the Neapolitan disease”; the Russians ...

Syphilis was soon rampant across the Continent and beyond, but its origins continued to be fiercely debated, with some historians claiming it was actually home-grown. Now, scientists have carried out ...

Whether persons who are serofast are at risk for progression to later stages of infection, that is, neurosyphilis or cardiovascular syphilis is unclear. However, given the rarity of neurosyphilis ...