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

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 ...

Using state of the art techniques, the team was able to recover and analyze five ancient genomes of the syphilis disease family from Mexico, Chile, Peru, and Argentina. Computational ...

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 ...

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 ...

In the spring of 1495, the Italian campaign of Charles VIII of France was interrupted by an intense outbreak of an unknown ...

Treponema pallidum, responsible for syphilis. Credit: NIAID / CC BY 2.0 In the spring of 1495, a deadly disease swept through Europe, leaving victims with severe physical and mental damage. The ...

At that point Mary Weiss, her sister, Betty, and the twins Mary Ann and Margie Ganser could have gone back to high school and ...

This Madonna and Child, an Italian oil painting from the 1600s, at Newfields has been conserved using scientific and artistic ...

During Wednesday night's Art of Sport LA Bowl, UNLV executed one of the best fake punts in recent memory. As the team faced ...