Journalists exploiting sensationalist headlines that bend the truth aren't anything new and the practice isn't going anywhere anytime soon. At the same time, linking the latest hyped-up trend to, well, anything guarantees a popular article. That's how you get a headline like, "Facebook 'linked to ... |
25 March 2010
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Maybe some people believe syphilis is something from the past, but this would be a big mistake: a new research published in the journal Lancet Infectious Diseases shows that our negligence enabled the old deadly sexual bug to have a spectacular comeback in developed countries, boosted by drug consumption and high-ris... |
21 March 2008
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This was the disease of the unhealthy morality, the AIDS of the past centuries. Syphilis killed millions of people in Europe, and didn't stop when the antibiotics were discovered. A new DNA investigation on Treponema, the bacterium causing the disease, published in the Public Library of Science Neglected Tropica... |
15 January 2008
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Syphilis is a gift bacterium from the American Natives: we gave them smallpox (which almost exterminated them), they gave us syphilis bacterium. Syphilis was the sexual scourge of the 19th century. Many famous people died of it, from poet Charles Baudelaire to composer Robert Schumann, or painter Paul Gauguin (in the... |
21 December 2007
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Congenital syphilis is extremely severe: it frequently induces stillbirths or neonatal death and children who survive are usually disabled. Syphilis is often undiagnosed or untreated in pregnant women, even when mothers are involved in anti-HIV programs. A new approach from Weill Cornell Medical College and the Group... |
30 May 2007
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