Tina, a 58-year-old Black woman living in the Delta, is Mississippi born and raised.[1] She raised four children and spent ...

In a functioning system, the kind of placebo-controlled vaccine trials that Secretary Kennedy is calling for would never get ...

Racial inequities in health care and research have long been a problem. Increasing the number of Black participants in ...

Syphilis in pregnancy has been strongly associated with cocaine use, teen pregnancy, low education levels, HIV infection, and underutilization of the health care system [1, 2] --all factors that ...

Brian Smith's Tuskegee Airmen National Historical Museum pays tribute to the first African-American pilots and airmen in the U.S. military.

Rates of syphilis are bucking trends of other sexually transmitted infections in Wisconsin. The number of babies born with syphilis — called congenital syphilis — in 2024 was nearly 15 times ...

Aria Trivedi is a biology major with a minor in biotechnology, and she is a 2024-25 health care ethics intern at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University. Views are her own.

A study conducted in Brazil found that congenital syphilis can be treated effectively with the antibiotic ceftriaxone. Compared with penicillin, the standard therapy for treating syphilis, ...

Syphilis cases are on the rise, specifically among the homeless population. Numbers from the state health department show a spike in an area of Oklahoma County. However, a metro woman is doing what… ...