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 ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. In this 1950s file photo released by the National Archives, men included in a syphilis study pose for a photo in Tuskegee, Ala.
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 ...
Researchers have recovered ancient DNA containing bacteria related to syphilis — potentially pushing the known history of the disease back by more than 3,000 years, according to their study. The ...
From a 5,500-year-old human shin bone, scientists have discovered a close cousin of the pathogen that causes syphilis, providing the oldest evidence yet that the disease has ancient roots in the ...
From exclusion to inclusion: participation in biomedical research and the legacy of the U.S. Public Health syphilis study at Tuskegee / Vivian W. Pinn -- Of thanks and forgiveness / James H. Jones -- ...
Researchers 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 oldest verified discovery of this pathogen ...
Jean Heller was toiling away on the floor of the Miami Beach Convention Center when an Associated Press colleague from the opposite end of the country walked into her workspace behind the event stage ...
A history of adequately treated syphilis before pregnancy is associated with more than a 100-fold increase in congenital syphilis risk, with rates of 6806 per 100,000 live births compared with 70 per ...