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Science Falls Behind as Syphilis Stages Another Comeback
Science Falls Behind as Syphilis Stages Another Comeback
Syphilis is among the oldest known sexually-transmitted infections. Scientists still struggle to detect and treat it.
Syphilis is among the oldest known sexually-transmitted infections. Scientists still struggle to detect and treat it.
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Opinion: Manuscripts and Art Support Archaeological Evidence that Syphilis Was in Europe Long Before Explorers Could Have Brought It Home from the Americas
Marylynn Salmon, The Conversation | Jul 13, 2022 | 5 min read
Multiple lines of evidence contradict the idea that the disease came to Europe via trans-Atlantic exchange.
Opinion: The Best Neuroscience Books of 2019
James Dolbow | Dec 18, 2019 | 4 min read
Bury your nose in tales of neurosyphilis, gender identity, the medical mysteries of sleep disorders, and more.
Bill Jenkins, Tuskegee Syphilis Study Whistleblower, Dies
Ashley Yeager | Mar 4, 2019 | 2 min read
A government scientist, he tried to end the unethical study, was unsuccessful, and then spent his career combatting injustice in healthcare.
Cuba Ends Mother-To-Child HIV
Bob Grant | Jul 2, 2015 | 2 min read
The Caribbean nation is the first to effectively eliminate the prenatal transmission of syphilis and the virus that causes AIDS, according to the World Health Organization.
Contributors
Abby Olena, PhD | Feb 1, 2014 | 3 min read
Meet some of the people featured in the February 2014 issue of The Scientist.
An Offensive Playbook
Mary Beth Aberlin | Feb 1, 2014 | 3 min read
Developing nonaddictive drugs to combat pain
Syphilis: Then and Now
Kristin N Harper, George J. Armelagos, and Molly K. Zuckerman | Feb 1, 2014 | 10+ min read
Researchers are zeroing in on the origin of syphilis and related diseases, which continue to plague the human population some 500 years after the first documented case.
Lessons From Past Unethical Experiments
Cristina Luiggi | Aug 30, 2011 | 1 min read
A bioethics commission announces the completion of an investigation into unethical US government-led experiments with STDs in Guatemala in the 1940s.