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

Tony Newberne is a high-risk myeloma survivor. He is also a CPT, dietary manager, and patient advocate for several nonprofits ...

Paleogenomics has finally solved a question that has puzzled researchers for decades: Where did syphilis come from?

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

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 ...

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 ...

Remembering some of the artists, innovators and thinkers we lost in the past year.

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved Mesoblast's cell therapy for treating a type of complication that ...