In that time range, the number of syphilis cases in women rose from two per 100,000 people to seven per 100,000, and the number of infants born with congenital syphilis — not including those who ...

Using the most up-to-date Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data, they show how every state has seen a spike in cases of syphilis and gonorrhea between 2017 and 2021.

Last year, nearly 4,000 U.S. babies were born with syphilis. There was a 3% increase in newborn syphilis cases, which is an improvement given the 30% annual increases seen in prior years, experts ...

A report this year by Trust for America’s Health, a public health policy research and advocacy group, estimated that 55,000 jobs were cut from local public health departments from 2008 to 2017.

Peter Buxtun, who has died aged 86, was the whistleblower who exposed America’s most infamous medical research scandal, a 40-year federal experiment conducted on 399 black men with syphilis to ...

According to a 2018 STD Surveillance Report from the CDC, combined cases of syphilis, gonorrhea and chlamydia reached an all-time high in the United States last year with more than 2.4 million cases.

The county’s cases of primary and secondary syphilis were double the U.S. rate, with six cases in the nation per 100,000 people, 10 cases in the state and 12 cases in L.A. County.

Fifty years after the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study was revealed to the public and halted, the organization that made those funeral payments, the Milbank Memorial Fund, publicly apologized ...

Before penicillin was found to be effective against syphilis during World War II, sex brought with it the risk of syphilis, an disease that can cause blindness, dementia and paralysis. An ...

Just 17 years ago, cases of syphilis reached record lows, with only about 6,000 reported cases, or about 2 cases per 100,000 people in the United States, in 2000. But both cases and rates of ...

A New York-based philanthropy is apologizing for its role in the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study. ... The move is rooted in America's racial reckoning after George Floyd's murder by police in 2020.

The Tuskegee Syphilis Study, officially called the “Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male” was conducted from 1932 to 1972 by the United States Public Health Service at ...