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 ...

Data released last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a troubling trend: a sharp rise in the number of pregnant women diagnosed with syphilis, a sexually transmitted ...

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 ...

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

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, ...

More than $5.5 million of the contract will be put toward assessing the impact of providing a biomedical intervention called DoxyPEP, which provides the antibiotic doxycycline to help avoid infection ...

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 ...

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

Gonorrhea cases also declined in 2025, while chlamydia cases remained stable following COVID-era spikes in sexually transmitted diseases.