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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Drugmaker Pfizer is warning doctors that it expects to run low on supplies of Bicillin L-A, a long-acting injection of the antibiotic penicillin, the preferred option for treating syphilis during ...

Syphilis cases reached a six-year high in Hamilton County in 2023, according to an April report from the public health department. At 582 cases, the total represents an 80% increase since 2018, ...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is proposing a federal task force to lead the public-health response to a surge in syphilis cases, a department spokesperson told MarketWatch Thursday.

NEW YORK (AP) — Alarmed by yet another jump in syphilis cases in newborns, U.S. health officials are calling for stepped-up prevention measures, including encouraging millions of women of childbearing ...

It's almost entirely preventable, and yet more babies in the U.S. are being born now with syphilis than at any time in the last 30 years. From 2012 to 2021, the number of cases of congenital syphilis ...

JACKSON, Miss. — The number of babies in Mississippi being treated for congenital syphilis has jumped by more than 900% over five years, uprooting the progress the nation’s poorest state had made in ...

This article originally appeared on ProPublica. Karmin Strohfus, the lead nurse at a South Dakota jail, punched numbers into a phone like lives depended on it. She had in her care a pregnant woman ...

South Florida is experiencing high rates of HIV and syphilis infections, with recent data underscoring the importance of ...