Sexually transmitted infections are on the rise nationwide and in Oregon, with public health officials encouraging sexually active individuals to get tested because some people can have an infection ...

Syphilis has been infecting people for centuries, and many researchers have tried to pinpoint the part of the world where the bacterium that causes the disease first appeared, before spreading across ...

If “syphilis” sounds to you like an illness people got in another century, you’re not alone. For decades, the infection was widely considered a disease of the past. But after years of decline, ...

Despite the availability of effective treatments and previously effective public health strategies, there has been a resurgence of syphilis in the United States. Syphilis is a sexually transmitted ...

One woman’s eyesight was so blurry she feared she was going blind. Another reported double vision that lasted for weeks. Yet another complained of floaters. In all, five women who lived in different ...

A newly sequenced genome of the bacterium that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum, highlights the deep antiquity of treponemal diseases in the Americas. The findings, based on a 5,500-year-old ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Public health experts were alarmed to see a surge of common sexually transmitted diseases – now referred to as sexually ...

Researchers at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity (Doherty Institute) have developed a world-first ...

Losing a child late in pregnancy is a cause of extraordinary grief. For many reasons, stillbirths are routinely under-reported, which has made it difficult to quantify the global burden, to determine ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If “syphilis” sounds to you like an illness people got in another century, you’re not alone. For decades, the infection was widely ...