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 ...

Congenital syphilis represents one of the most devastating yet preventable threats to infant health, with cases climbing at an alarming rate across the United States. This resurgent public health ...

Parkland Health is partnering with UT Southwestern Medical Center and Dallas County Health and Human Services to provide free screening, testing and education around maternal syphilis as cases ...

Why are we asking for donations? Why are we asking for donations? This site is free thanks to our community of supporters. Voluntary donations from readers like you keep our news accessible for ...

Experts have sounded the alarm after new data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed an 80 percent rise in cases of syphilis in the U.S. over the last five years. "Our nation ...

The US Food and Drug Administration authorized the first at-home over-the-counter test for syphilis Friday. Until now, people who suspected that they had the sexually transmitted infection had to go ...

Amid the current syphilis “epidemic” in the U.S., doctors are seeing more patients with unusual vision and eye symptoms due to the sexually transmitted infection. A January 2024 CDC report stated that ...

Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection that can cause lesions, rashes, and fevers. Michigan health officials reported a cluster of syphilis infections in the eye. Ocular syphilis is typically ...

When Dr. Susan Girois was training as a physician in the 1990s, she doesn’t remember diagnosing a single case of syphilis. Today, four or five patients a week regularly appear at a clinic run by the ...