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The Tuskegee Study of Untreated Syphilis in the Negro Male [1] (informally referred to as the Tuskegee Experiment or Tuskegee Syphilis Study) was a study conducted between 1932 and 1972 by the United States Public Health Service (PHS) and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on a group of nearly 400 African American men with syphilis.
Neosalvarsan is a synthetic chemotherapeutic that is an organoarsenic compound.It became available in 1912 and superseded the more toxic and less water-soluble Salvarsan as an effective treatment for syphilis.
By the end of the study in 1972, only 74 of the test subjects were alive. 28 of the original 399 men had died of syphilis, 100 were dead of related complications, 40 of their wives had been infected, and 19 of their children were born with congenital syphilis. The study was not shut down until 1972, when its existence was leaked to the press ...
Given that 1 in 6 people globally will be 60 and older by 2030, the review calls on health professionals to take the initiative by bringing up sexual health as a routine part of health care for ...
A staggering 207,000 syphilis cases were reported in the US in 2022 — an 80% increase since 2018. Syphilis cases soar to highest level in 70 years — CDC sounds alarm over ‘unacceptable’ crisis
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Over 400,000 sexually transmitted infections were reported in England in 2017, about the same as in 2016, but there were more than 20% increases in confirmed cases of gonorrhoea and syphilis. Since 2008 syphilis cases have risen by 148%, from 2,874 to 7,137, mostly among men who have sex with men. The number of first cases of genital warts in ...
A new proven protocol in which doxycycline is used to prevent sexually transmitted infections — called doxyPEP — has been an apparent sleeper hit among gay and bisexual men.