PBHL 1106 Chapter Notes - Chapter 8: Cryosurgery, Cirrhosis, Body Piercing
26 Mar 2016
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Today the proper terminology is sti to emphasize an important message that these are infectious conditions unlike diseases like diabetes or heart disease. One of the darkest episodes in the history of medical research was the tuskegee syphilis study which only came to light publicly in the late 1990s. In the 1930s the us public health service set about studying the short and long term effects of the. They denied treatment to 400 low income african american men who tested positive. The research never told the men they had syphilis and prevented them for m obtaining treatment elsewhere. When penicillin was discovered it could treat the illness the researchers did not tell the patients. Sti are the most common causes of illness and disease worldwide. On any given day more people suffer from sti related symptoms than the total number of people with the common cold.
