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Saskatchewan leads the country in preventable, opportunistic illnesses enabled by poverty. With recent changes to income support programs and increased housing instability, things are getting worse.

Affected individuals in the current outbreak may develop fewer lesions, sometimes between one and five instead of up to 200.

Altruistic as they might sound, the checks — $100 at most — were no simple act of charity: They were part of an almost unimaginable scheme.

For almost 40 years starting in the 1930s, as government researchers purposely let hundreds of Black men die of syphilis in Alabama so they could study the disease

A New York-based philanthropy is apologizing for its role 50 years after the study was revealed to the public.

A New York-based philanthropy is publicly apologizing for its role in the infamous Tuskegee syphilis study. The Manhattan-based Milbank Memorial Fund covered funeral expenses starting in the 1930s for hundreds

Dr Paul Auwaerter discusses the current monkeypox outbreak and highlights information related to diagnosis and treatment.

Quenton Tompkins' family tree is deeply rooted in rural McCormick County, South Carolina.

Archaeologists have excavated at the site of Lima’s first hospital and unearthed 42 skeletons riddled with syphilis who died just after Pizarro’s conquest of the Inca.

A significant proportion of bacterial sexually transmitted infections (STIs) - gonorrhea, chlamydia or syphilis - were prevented with a dose of doxycycline after unprotected sex, according to preliminary results of a clinical trial that closed early because it was very effective for men who have sex with men and transgender women who are living with HIV or are taking HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP).