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 Watch Did Shakespeare Have Syphilis? Jeffrey Brown talks to John J. Ross, author of "Shakespeare's Tremor and Orwell's Cough."…
Health Oct 04 Watch 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.