Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Most women with syphilis during pregnancy received timely prenatal care. Substance use or a history of ...

Patients aged between 40 and 49 years, heterosexual patients, and patients diagnosed in the emergency department are the least likely patient groups to complete syphilis treatment. Only slightly more ...

A single dose of penicillin works just as well to cure early syphilis as the three-injection regimen now used by many doctors, a new clinical trial suggests. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI A single ...

Syphilis is a conquered disease in one sense only—that the chemical means to obliterate it are on hand. Its real conquest is a problem of lining up the patients. Standard syphilis-destroyer is ...

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 ...

In Manhattan’s Mount Sinai Hospital last week, a crowd of doctors from all over the eastern U. S. stared fixedly at a glass jar suspended above a patient’s bed. The patient had syphilis. From the ...

Syphilis cases have been rising at an alarming rate in the United States, according to a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As concerns for syphilis and sexually ...

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

Syphilis is surging in the U.S., reaching the highest numbers in nearly 75 years. Cases of the sexually transmitted disease (STD) rose 10% in 2022, reaching 203,500. The numbers have increased 68% ...

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, ...