Indigenous change-makers, including a doctor, an AFL legend and a celebrated performer, have been recognised at the National ...

Anuradhapura Divisional Health Services Deputy Director Dr. Dhammika De Silva said that anti-HIV programme in the ...

In the warehouse of Hot Shot Fireworks, hundreds of people came by to purchase fireworks on the Fourth of July.

The South Dakota Department of Health is reporting encouraging information in the fight against syphilis, with cases across ...

The report pulls from data gathered from 2024 to early 2025.

The risk of asymptomatic infections is that it is easier to spread the disease to other people without realizing it. The ...

State officials want sex education titles moved to adult sections as Alabama faces high STI and teen pregnancy rates, ...

Syphilis cases skyrocketed in the U.S. as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's STD prevention budget dropped, data shows. In 2003, the budget was around $169 million and there were ...

Especially alarming: Congenital syphilis, which occurs when a mother with syphilis passes the infection on to her baby during pregnancy, increased 30.6% with more than 3,700 cases in 2022.

For centuries, scientists have disputed the origins of syphilis. A new study of ancient DNA supports an American origin for syphilis, before Columbus arrived.

Syphilis originated in America 8,000 years ago To test the Columbian hypothesis, Bos and her colleagues performed a genetic analysis on bacteria in bone lesions in the five skeletons, which came ...

Syphilis is often referred to as the Great Masquerader: a painless genital ulcer or rash on the hands and feet are textbook signs, but a bloodshot eye, a white patch on the tongue or hair loss can ...