Yaws is a chronic illness that first affects the skin, and later the bones. Yaws tends to strike children, particularly between the ages of two and five. It is common in areas where poverty and overcrowding interfere with good hygiene. It is most...

Yaws (also Pétasse tropica, thymosis, polypapilloma tropicum or pian) is a tropical infection of the skin, bones and joints caused by the spirochete bacterium Treponema pertenue. Other treponematosis diseases are bejel (Treponema endemicum), pinta...

Terrestrial gravity restricts human locomotion to surfaces in which turns involve rotations around the body axis. Because observers are usually upright, one might expect the effects of gravity to induce differences in the processing of vertical versus horizontal turns. Subjects observed visual scenes of...

Se presentan los posibles casos de Treponematosis, que fueron estudiados en las poblaciones prehispánicas del Desierto de Atacama, extremo norte de Chile. Abarcan una secuencia temporal desde los 5.000 - 800 a.P.; con una economía de pesca, caza y reeolección para las poblaciones arcaicas...

A virtually eradicated disease that eats through people's skin, cartilage and bones is reappearing in Africa, Asia and South America, the World Health Organization warned Thursday.Yaws, which is triggered by bacterial infection and can cause debilitating deformations, particularly in children under 15, once affected 50...

The movie The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift has the sort of action that makes you want to go out and shred the tread off a set of tires. Who among us wouldn’t like to try drifting all the way up a parking structure,...