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 ...

We don’t stop having sex after 40, but we do tend to stop talking about it. And, as the soaring rates of midlife STIs suggest, we might also stop practising safe sex.

New year, new priorities- make sexual health the top of the list. STI testing is easy and the best way to protect yourself and your partners.

From a Tuskegee Study apology to vaccine distrust, Benita Harris spent her career at the CDC battling racial disparity in ...

Individuals who are HIV-positive and have ocular syphilis show significant visual acuity improvement following standard anti-syphilitic treatment.

MKUltra: When Mind Control Wasn't Just Science Fiction Over 1,200 documents detailing the CIA's experiments with drugs, ...

History reminds us that scientific progress achieved at the expense of the most vulnerable cannot be justified.

The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), led by Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr., in December 2025 announced a research project ...

The LETS Program is facing rising STI numbers head-on — with a push for education, access to testing and conversations that ...

From a 5,500-year-old human shin bone, scientists have discovered a close cousin of the pathogen that causes syphilis, ...

Syphilis, an infection caused by Treponema pallidum, transmitted predominantly through sexual contact, affects several organs, causing skin, mucous membranes and systemic lesions. Despite being a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If “syphilis” sounds to you like an illness people got in another century, you’re not alone. For decades, the infection was widely ...