In a concerning development that has caught the attention of public health officials nationwide, syphilis - a sexually transmitted infection once considered ...

What it’s looking like is a stabilization” and, hopefully, a decline will follow, state epidemiologist Dr. Rachel Herlihy said Friday.

Lawmakers advanced a proposal Monday designed to expand syphilis blood testing for expectant mothers to stem a rising tide of maternal and congenital syphilis. Legislative Bill 41, from ...

The Russian military wants to make it harder for conscripts to secure medical exemptions from military service, including ...

Syphilis and gonorrhoea cases soared in 2023, with notable increases among young people, health authorities said. View on ...

The number of primary and secondary syphilis cases in young women rose dramatically in the late 1980s and early 1990s, due to illicit drug use and the exchange of drugs for sex. Of infants born to ...

With Valentine’s Day around the corner, the Berrien County Health Department is reminding everyone of the importance of ...

Untreated syphilis in pregnant women is the second leading cause of stillbirths globally. Should the infant survive, it could ...

In our clinic, quantitative serologic tests are taken routinely on all patients with early syphilis, but these have proved to be of the greatest value in the cases with negative dark-field lesions ...

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. - There has been a rise in reported cases of congenital syphilis (CS) -- people passing down syphilis to their babies during pregnancy -- according to the newly-released 2023 ...

Hair loss is one possible symptom of the sexually transmitted infection syphilis. It’s thought to occur due to an immune response to the bacteria causing the infection. Syphilis is a sexually ...

The European Health Agency ECDC is sounding the alarm: more and more cases of infectious sexually transmitted diseases are ...