As health care services begin offering doxycycline to prevent bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs), real-world evidence demonstrates that the postexposure strategy, called doxy PEP, is ...

A new study has found that rates of chlamydia and syphilis plummet among people prescribed doxycycline for sexually transmitted infection prevention in routine clinical care.

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It seems syphilis became more virulent at some point before Columbus arrived – and then at the end of the 15th century, as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

More Ministry of Tourism and Antiquities Some of the mummies discovered recently in the Ptolemaic-era tombs were found with pieces of gold shaped into the form of a human tongue. Such golden ...

She then realized “how uneven his face looked” and pushed him to go to the doctors – where he was later diagnosed with tongue cancer. Stuart Kingston was diagnosed with tongue cancer after ...