Sentences with phrase «studying syphilis»

«Syphilis was a major killer in Europe during the Renaissance,» said co-author George Armelagos, a skeletal biologist at Emory who has been studying syphilis for three decades.

At the same time, they were subjects of a hideous experiment to study syphilis to the end of its natural course, and the experiment continued well after a cure was developed.

Not exact matches

«Since the syphilis bacterium can not be cultured in the lab, our results show that data derived from studying the Lyme disease bacterium is highly informative about the syphilis bacterium and can be used as a «surrogate» for it,» says Dr. Wolgemuth.

«That supports the hypothesis that syphilis — or some progenitor — came from the New World,» said lead study author Kristin Harper, an Emory molecular genetics researcher.

Researchers from Emory University in Atlanta report in the online journal PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases that they used phylogenetics — the study of the evolutionary link between organisms — to study 26 geographically scattered strains of a family of bacteria known as Treponemes, which are behind the sexually transmitted disease syphilis as well as related nonvenereal infections such as yaws.

8 Surgeon General Hugh Cumming is remembered for the notorious Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment, begun under his watch in 1930, to study the effects of untreated syphilis in African American men.

The study proved that it's unhealthy to leave syphilis untreated.

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).

They argue that their study contributes to this increasing body of evidence that finds that populations with high HIV prevalences had higher rates of other syphilis and HSV - 2 in the pre-HIV era.

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

«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.

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.

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.

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.

Female sex work interventions and changes in HIV and syphilis infection risks from 2003 to 2008 in India: a repeated cross-sectional study

The bacteria that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum, is difficult to study in the lab, as it can't be grown in a test tube or Petri dish.

However, if the prospect of having to undergo five dozen vaccinations to achieve this immunity weren't daunting enough, here's one more thing to bum you out: That study was published in 1973, and was the high point of syphilis - vaccine research.