Dublin's Monto was Europe's biggest red-light district from 1860 to 1925 with up to 1,600 sex workers at any one time, writes ...

(Haiyun Jiang | The New York Times) Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President Donald Trump’s nominee for secretary of Health and Human ...

Another intriguing theory emerged in 1970, when Dr Thomas Stowell, a respected physician, proposed that Prince Albert Victor Christian Edward – known as Prince Eddy – suffering from syphilis-induced .

Guest columnist Frank Catrone, a disease intervention specialist supervisor with Canton City Public Health, urges people to ...

The Victorian Era was a time of the Industrial Revolution, with authors Charles Dickens and Charles Darwin, the railway and shipping booms, profound scientific discoveries, and the invention of the ...

The Leibniz Institute DSMZ-German Collection of Microorganisms and Cell Cultures has added the syphilis pathogen to its ...

Researchers suggest that unprotected intercourse, an increase in the number of sexual partners, and changes in testing practices are potential causes.

The notorious Victorian era serial killer Jack the Ripper's identity may have been discovered after 130 years due to new DNA ...

In a concerning development that has caught the attention of public health officials nationwide, syphilis – a sexually transmitted infection once considered to be in decline – has made an ...