Syphilis cases have surged worldwide, leaving public health officials scrounging for ways to stop the spread. Now, a large, collaborative study of syphilis genetics from four continents has found ...

The study charted syphilis progression in unknowing Black men. Lillie Tyson Head and her daughter, Carmen Head Thornton, have reason to be skeptical about the COVID-19 vaccine. After all, it was ...

The impetus for this post came from its first author, Susan Daily, M.D., who watched a 16-year-old girl die from tertiary syphilis that had previously been misdiagnosed as bipolar disorder. As of 2024 ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted marketing authorization for the first at-home syphilis test. The over-the-counter First To Know Syphilis Test, made by NOWDiagnostics in Arkansas, ...

In A Nutshell Scientists discovered a 5,500-year-old form of the bacteria that causes syphilis in remains from Colombia, the ...

And this means we might have been thinking about the origins of syphilis in an entirely wrong way. While the French ...

Congenital syphilis is preventable, but nonetheless, the disease is on the rise in countries like Australia, a study finds. This mirrors trends in the U.S. When you purchase through links on our site, ...

The U.S. syphilis epidemic slowed dramatically last year, gonorrhea cases fell, and chlamydia cases remained below prepandemic levels, according to federal data released Tuesday. The numbers ...

A rising number of syphilis infections in Arlington is driving a push to do better at testing and treating the sexually ...