The Rijksmuseum is presenting a rare 19th-century condom featuring a raunchy print in its new show "Safe Sex?" ...

Welcome to 5 Things PM! A rare 19th-century condom decorated with an erotic etching featuring a nun and three clergymen will go on display at a museum in the ...

England is grappling with its worst syphilis outbreak in more than seven decades, with infection rates reaching levels not ...

The remains, used in the 19th century as part of now discredited racial science, are being laid to rest on Saturday in a ...

Public Health Wales (PHW) say that tuberculosis (TB) is a "serious public health concern" as cases of the disease are on the rise. New figures from PHW show that cases rose by 14.5% in Wales last year ...

Teaching 19th-century English literature ... Depicting the cruelty of diseases largely unfamiliar today, they also warn against being lulled into thinking that child deaths can never be inevitable ...

The Center for Disease Control advocates a 20-second scrub with soap and water, but this advice wasn’t always considered common sense. In the 19th century, it was scandalous. In Europe in the ...

What was then a mystery disease arose in the US between 1843 and 1845 before spreading to Europe. In 1845, first reports of the disease arose in Ireland and Scotland. It caused mass starvation and ...

In the 19th century, diseases that are relatively uncommon today were major causes of death in the United States. Infectious diseases such as cholera, dysentery, and tuberculosis, often referred ...

plastic devices known as “rectal dilators” – also known as butt plugs – were devices said to have been sold in the 19th century and marketed as a cure for ailments like chronic ...

But centuries of disease, virtual enslavement and murder ... Friendships that go back decades and tribal ties of a century or more have been imperiled by the casino furor. Native people normally ...

He examines the reactions to outbreaks of smallpox, cholera and plague in the 18th and 19th centuries ... a history of public health responses to diseases of pandemic proportions.