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 ...

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 ...

A 5,500-year-old skeleton from the Americas has yielded the oldest genetic evidence yet of a bacterium closely related to the one that causes syphilis, forcing researchers to rethink when and where ...

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.

In 1495, a devastating infection began to sweep across Europe, causing pustules and sores to erupt on people’s bodies and faces. Accusatory finger-pointing about the scourge, syphilis, began almost ...

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 ...

A 2,000-year-old human skeleton found at the Jabuticabeira II burial site in Brazil. Dr. Jose Filippini Two-thousand-year-old human remains uncovered from a burial site on the southeastern coast of ...

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 -- ...

Although Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum (T. pallidum), the causative agent of syphilis, is considered a monomorphic bacterium, in vitrogrowth differences have been found between individual strains ...

Fifty years after officials halted one of the most unethical public health studies in United States history, the societal effects of the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and the health injustices it represents ...