Topic: Europe

Syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease caused by the bacterial spirochete Treponema pallidum, was for a long time a feared cause of death and madness. During the late 1490's an epidemic of syphilis swept through Europe. The start of this epidemic coinciding with ...

The question of whether smokers and overweight people should receive healthcare treatment seems to be based on the notion that such individuals are less deserving of help because they have made lifestyle choices which have damaged their health. Some may say that ...

Under good circumstances it's more probable that the average woman could become pregnant every year throughout her reproductive life, which is approximately between 15 and 45 years of age. every gender has gametes -which are reproductive cells (a sperm and ova) capable ...

Syphilis, caused by the spiral shaped bacterium Treponema pallidum, has a long history of infecting man. Some theories propose that it arrived in Europe from America with the return of Columbus and his sailors. Others suggest that archaeological evidence from burials predating ...

Urination is a process which needs the proper functioning of several tissue structures and organs. When understanding how much of a hindrance does dysuria can exert on ones life, it is interesting to know the famous Napoleon suffered from painful urination at ...

A 42-year-old American man living in Germany who had both BBC:

The region which brought you the Black Death, communism and all-pervasive kleptocracy now presents: How misleading even these dire data are is revealed by an in-depth study of a single city in Russia, Togliatti. Quoted in Pravda.ru, The Director of the Federal ...

When investigators reported 3 years ago that they had found a similar SIV, SIVgor, in gorillas living in Cameroon, a genetic analysis suggested that it, too, descended from SIVcpz. Now the finding of SIVgor in a Cameroonian woman who moved to France ...

Spokesman quits after controversial remarks by Belgium's arch-conservative archbishopThe spokesman for the arch-conservative leader of Belgium's Roman Catholic Church has resigned after his boss defended priests accused of pedophilia and criticized AIDS patients.Spokesman Juergen Mettepenningen told reporters that he "no longer can" ...

GENEVA (Reuters) - Switzerland's innovative policy of providing drug addicts with free methadone and clean needles has greatly reduced deaths while cutting crime rates and should serve as a global model, health experts said on Monday.Countries whose drug policy remains focused on ...