Sentences with phrase «on syphilis»

Social determinants of syphilis in South China: the effect of sibling position on syphilis and sexual risk behaviours

But, that's not what the numbers on syphilis indicate, correct?

And more importantly, given the fact that you are a RN and educated on syphilis, hepatitis B and C and HIV, how can you possibly defend a publication that promotes informal milk sharing with strangers?

Not exact matches

«Hitler was not insane or deranged, or suffering from drug - induced delusions,» he writes, «or laboring under the effects of some chronic disease such as syphilis, or acting in an unresolved hypnotic trance: on the contrary, he was sane according to any reasonable definition of the term, and fully responsible for his actions.»

Or maybe brought on as a consequence of catching syphilis.

A racist who acts like he's got tertiary syphilis on the brain.

When I was a boy we all knew about syphilis and gonorrhea, but because of penicillin they were supposed to be on the way out.

According to the La Leche League that a mom should be healthy, well - nourished, taking no medication, ideally she would have an infant about the same age as the one she's going to be cross-nursing, she should be screened for tuberculosis, syphilis, hepatitis, herpes, HIV and other infectious agents, she should not smoke, drink alcohol, consume large amounts of caffeinated beverages or artificially sweetened beverages, and her own infant should already be very healthy, gaining weight on a regular basis and free of all infections.

Depending on your health, your provider may test your baby for conditions including herpes, hepatitis B and hepatitis C, syphilis, toxoplasmosis, or tuberculosis.

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 so - called Columbian theory of syphilis's spread was based on finding skeletal remains bearing the signature of the disease — thickened leg and arm bones and skull scars — in a suggestive pattern.

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

Both the Treponema that cause syphilis and the Borrelia that cause Lyme disease contain only a fifth of the genes they need to live on their own.

Gay men, for example, who are sexually active need to be tested for syphilis and other sexually transmitted diseases on a regular basis.

During one of his famous staining experiments of the late 1800s — the kind that would eventually lead to a cure for syphilis and a Nobel Prize for Medicine — Paul Ehrlich stumbled on a conundrum that would haunt medicine down to the present day.

From a human perspective, these activities are not as dramatic as syphilis or food poisoning, but the whole web of life, including our own, depends on them.

The medical onslaught on the Jew was so all - embracing — he was mentally unstable, physically inferior, vocally impaired, predisposed to syphilis, diabetes, haemorrhoids, constipation, even cancer — that it is a won - der that any coherent comprehensive scientific cosmology could sidestep it.

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.

In the 1940s, when it seemed that penicillin was successfully rooting out syphilis in the United States, Cutler worried that simply relying on the pill after the disease had been diagnosed wasn't enough.

Beginning with the Nazi Doctors» Trial at the 1946 Nuremberg Trial (1), coverage includes publication of Henry Beecher's «Ethics and Clinical Research» (2), The New York Times exposure of the public health service syphilis study in Macon County, Alabama (the infamous «Tuskeegee case»)(3), the University of Pennsylvania / Gelsinger gene transfer case, and The Washington Post series on international clinical drug testing abuses (4).

Based on official records, documents released after the fall of the U.S.S.R., memoirs from Lenin's physicians, and other evidence, three Israeli doctors concluded in January that the Soviet leader was treated for syphilis as early as 1895.

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

At Obama's request, the panel is also following up on the recent revelation that in the mid-1940s, a U.S. federal researcher deliberately infected patients in Guatemala with syphilis.

Local syphilis rates could be on the rise.

To update its 2004 recommendation on screening for syphilis infection in nonpregnant adults, the USPSTF reviewed the evidence on screening for syphilis infection in asymptomatic, nonpregnant adults and adolescents, including patients coinfected with other sexually transmitted infections (such as HIV).

The USPSTF found no direct evidence on the harms of screening for syphilis in nonpregnant persons who are at increased risk for infection.

«We found compelling evidence for impact of several interventions on preventing stillbirths, especially emergency obstetric care; screening and treatment for maternal infections such as syphilis, and prevention and treatment of malaria,» said Gary Darmstadt, MD, MS, co-author and co-editor of the study and former director of the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health's International Center for Advancing Neonatal Health.

Depending on your sexual activity, the infection rates in your community, and your level of concern, you may want to be tested for syphilis as well.

on the population of Rhode Island, which found rapid year - on - year increases in the prevalence of HIV, syphilis and gonorrhea.

Social media blamed for Alberta's gonorrhea and syphilis «outbreak levels» Tinder, Grindr lash back at being named in STD awareness campaign Tinder hook - ups just as likely to want a relationship, survey finds Tinder goes on Twitter...

The diagnoses are displayed openly on user profiles, and include short - term infections, like gonorrhea and syphilis, as well as long - term conditions, like herpes and HIV.

Herpes, genital warts, new strains of gonorrhea, syphilis, chlamydia, hepatitis B and HIV are all on the rise.

Focus on providing a safe dating & support community for people with herpes, genital warts, hpv, hiv / aids, chlamydia, hepatitis b & c, gonorrhea, syphilis, etc..

HIV / AIDS, HPV, chlamydia, syphilis, the list goes on and on.

Plus, Debbie's new lifestyle comes to an abrupt end; Carl gets a syphilis scare; Ian struggles with a breakup; and with Fiona on the run to clean up after her siblings, business at Patsy's hits the skids.

The syphilis she contracted from her first husband on their wedding night is finally causing her fatigue some fifty years later.

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.

There in the mind's eye is Marie Curie stirring a vat of pitchblende over many years to recover minute amounts of radium, or Paul Ehrlich testing one arsenical compound after another until he finds Salvarsan, the «magic bullet» against syphilis, on his 606th attempt.

On land, he meets native people — Aboriginal and Aleut elders, Maori gang members, the king of Tonga — for whom Cook is alternately a heroic navigator and a villain who brought syphilis, guns, and greed to the unspoiled Pacific.

Since Karen got syphilis from her husband did she pass it on to Denys who then gave it to Beryl resulting in the birth defects of her child?

The FT notes that US health authorities have refused to collaborate on IEM's current flu futures market efforts, despite the fact that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had helped IEM establish a syphilis futures market just last year.

Even then, up until a few years ago, syphilis was on the wane in the latter group with only 123 cases notified in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people nationally in 2009.

MEMPHIS, TN — In observance of National HIV Testing Day, Planned Parenthood Greater Memphis Region (PPGMR) will offer free, confidential HIV prevention counseling and testing and free syphilis testing on Tuesday, June 26, 2012 at its health center at 2430 Poplar Avenue.

These sores can be hidden on the cervix or in the vagina, urethra, rectum, or mouth, making it not immediately apparent that one is infected with syphilis.

Malaria fever therapy, popular from the 1920s until the adoption of penicillin as a cure for syphilis, was used on patients with an advanced form of the infection, based on the idea that infecting a patient with malaria would induce a fever that could somehow kill T. pallidum.

Ocular syphilis — that is, syphilis infections that spread to the eyes and can lead to blindness — is also on the rise.

Rates of infidelity in «monogamous» relationships are also alarmingly high, hovering between 20 - 55 %, depending on what time frame you ask people about (e.g., having ever cheated versus cheated in the last 5 years).3 Sadly, when cheaters cheat, they typically do not take protective measures to reduce sexually transmitted infections 100 % of the time.1 Then, when they have sex with their primary partner, they rarely use barrier protection (e.g., condoms); this puts all partners at risk for diseases such as syphilis and HIV.