Sentences with phrase «by syphilis»

But underneath Florence's eccentric confidence, she is haunted by the syphilis she contracted from her first husband decades ago; throughout the movie, Streep offers glimpses into her understanding of mortality.

Retitled A Woman of Affairs, this tale of a woman destroyed by syphilis was heavily laundered for the screen.

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They were prohibited by government officials from receiving penicillin for 25 years after it was readily available and publically authorized to cure syphilis.

If one looks at the statistics reported by the CDC for 2010, one would see that among straight men and women, African - American people have the highest incidence of syphilis.

if i read the article correctly it about how some moral beliefs ruin s * x. and if i remember history correctly hitler had incurable syphilis, a disease that by some accounts is God's revenge for promiscuity.

By 1902 editors of The American X-Ray Journal overenthusiastically estimated that 100 diseases could be treated with this invisible beam, including lupus, syphilis, and ringworm.

Created by artist Alicia Watkins of Watty's Wall Stuff and Cross Stitchery, these handcrafted microbes and germs are based on real scientific images of a variety of unpleasant maladies including rabies, tuberculosis, syphilis and the common cold.

The researchers also showed that both types of spirochetes (syphilis's Treponema pallidum and Lyme disease's Borrelia burgdorferi) respond to changes in viscosity in a similar manner and can be explained by the same biophysical model.

Syphilis is sexually transmitted, for instance, whereas yaws and endemic syphilis are tropical conditions that are spread by skin - to - skin or oral contact.

Is there a connection here between syphilis and Lyme disease, which is also caused by a spirochete and which is also said to be difficult to treat when diagnosed late?

In science news around the world, NASA's Cassini mission is about to take its final plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn after 13 years providing an unprecedented view of the planet and its moons, a fight over whether to preserve or develop of one Europe's oldest gold mining sites heats up again, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves the first cancer gene therapy for people, a U.S. court gives a green light to a $ 1 billion lawsuit brought by the Guatemalan victims and survivors of mid — 20th century syphilis experiments by research institutions including Johns Hopkins University, and more.

After syphilis establishes this symbiotic relationship with a person, it becomes dependent on human cells and is undetectable by any testing.

One of the first known examples was syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum.

This remarkable discovery of the earliest evidence of syphilis between 1320 and 1390 now awaits confirmation by molecular biological tests and proteomics (examination of the proteome using biochemical methods).

Meanwhile, the rate of reported cases of syphilis in the U.S. rose for the seventh consecutive year — up 12 percent between 2006 and 2007 — according to preliminary data gathered by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).

Congenital syphilis, which is passed from a pregnant mother to her unborn child, was primarily identified by changes to the teeth of skeletons from the 14th century.

Smartphone dongles performed a point - of - care HIV and syphilis test in Rwanda from finger prick whole blood in 15 minutes, operated by health care workers trained on a software app.

«By increasing detection of syphilis infections, we might be able to reduce deaths by 10-folBy increasing detection of syphilis infections, we might be able to reduce deaths by 10-folby 10-fold.

Her doctors diagnosed her with epilepsy, probably brought on by the damage done to parts of her brain by a case of syphilis.

Two studies by UCLA researchers have found online search terms and tweets could be used to predict syphilis trends.

Amazingly, a century after scientists knew otherwise, most creationists still believe that Neandertals were merely modern humans, deformed by diseases such as rickets, arthritis or syphilis.

Ironically enough, one of the best refutations of the idea that Neandertalism is caused by diseases such as rickets, syphilis or arthritis, is by a creationist author, Jack Cuozzo (1998, pp.275 - 279).

By Amanda MacMillan WEDNESDAY, March 25, 2009 (Health.com)-- Men who are circumcised are less likely to get sexually transmitted infections such as genital herpes and human papillomavirus (HPV), but not syphilis, according to a study of adult African men published Wednesday in the New England Journal of Medicine.

It is also thought to be helpful in other diseases caused by toxicity in the blood, including syphilis and gonorrhea.

«By 1978, silver was shown to kill syphilis and malaria.

Between 2013 and 2014, the number of people diagnosed in the state with syphilis increased by 79 percent.

Between 2013 and 2014, the number of RI citizens diagnosed with syphilis increased by 79 %.

The marriage was never officially dissolved, though, so she shacked up illicitly with Bayfield, and made her living teaching piano — even though her hands were ruined, by accident or, more likely, syphilis — until her father died and she inherited a ton of money.

Health professionals studying the progression of untreated syphilis in rural African - American men preyed on these men, most of whom were poor, by misleading them about the purpose of the experiments.

A Pictorial Tour of The Boleyn Inheritance: By the time The Boleyn Inheritance opens Henry VIII is about 50 years old, in poor health, probably suffering from gout, possibly syphilis, and has an open festering wound in his leg that won't heal (he hadn't always been old, fat and smelly - in his youth he'd been considered quite dashing and a lot slimmer, as can be seen by the armor he wore in his early twentiesBy the time The Boleyn Inheritance opens Henry VIII is about 50 years old, in poor health, probably suffering from gout, possibly syphilis, and has an open festering wound in his leg that won't heal (he hadn't always been old, fat and smelly - in his youth he'd been considered quite dashing and a lot slimmer, as can be seen by the armor he wore in his early twentiesby the armor he wore in his early twenties).

In the mid-1990s, the city of Baltimore was attacked by an epidemic of syphilis.

Composed while the 31 - year - old Franz Schubert was dying of syphilis and not in a very good mood, the 24 - song cycle Winterreise sets to music a poem by Wilhelm Müller about a young man who, spurned by his lover, goes off in search of a lonely death.

This gap was remedied in 2014 by the introduction of a set of nationally agreed guidelines for the public health management of syphilis in remote populations.

It is mostly spread by sexual contact — vaginal or anal intercourse, as well as oral sex — in which one person comes into contact with a syphilis sore.

Dental dams serve as a barrier against most STDs, since many sexually transmitted diseases, such as syphilis, human papillomavirus (HPV), and herpes, can be passed simply by skin - to - skin contact.

Diagnosis is usually obtained either by testing the blood for antibodies or observing the products of a suspected syphilis lesion under a microscope.

When it comes to STDs, «prevention» is usually synonymous with «condoms» — and, while condoms provide excellent protection against most STDs, they are more limited in preventing the transmission of STDs like syphilis, which are spread by skin - to - skin contact.

Since 2000, syphilis rates have nearly quadrupled, climbing from 2.1 to 7.5 per 100,000 people by 2015 — the highest they have been since 1994.

By 2000, syphilis rates hit an all - time low, and many scientists thought the United States was at the dawn of the complete elimination of syphilis.

You can help prevent syphilis by using condoms and / or dental dams every time you have sex.

The rate of young Aboriginal people infected with syphilis was 173 per 100,000, compared with 15 per 100,000 in non-Indigenous peers, driven largely by an outbreak occurring over the last six years across northern and central Australia.

«Cutaneous» STDs, i.e., herpes, HPV, syphilis, and molluscum contagiosum, are transmitted by skin - to - skin contact.

Most sexually transmitted diseases can be passed along by oral sex, including chlamydia, gonorrhea, syphilis, hepatitis B, herpes (which can be transmitted back and forth from the mouth, as cold sores, to the genital region, as genital herpes), human papillomavirus (HPV), and HIV.