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Health Apr 28

He was a champion of public health — but played a role in the horrors of Tuskegee. Should a college expunge his name?

By Megha Satyanarayana, STAT

Health Mar 05

Spike in syphilis among newborns driven by broader epidemic

The Central Valley — a vast agricultural and mostly low-income swath of California — has seen an unprecedented spike in congenital syphilis over the last few years.

By Anna Gorman, Kaiser Health News

Health Jan 25

The infectious disease that sprung Al Capone from Alcatraz

after he was finally imprisoned for his life of crime, it was neither case law nor strong-armed tactics that set him free. It was, in fact, a tiny microbe called Treponema pallidum.

By Dr. Howard Markel

Jan 24

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Did Shakespeare Have Syphilis?

Jeffrey Brown talks to John J. Ross, author of "Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough."…

Health Oct 04

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Researcher ‘Floored’ by Discovery of Intentional Infections in Guatemala

Ray Suarez speaks with Wellesley College professor Susan Reverby about her discovery of how U.S. scientists did secret syphilis experiments on Guatemalans decades ago.

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