For years, he tried to expose the Tuskegee syphilis study, but no one would listen. By Maggie Jones One afternoon in the ...

Paleogenomics has finally solved a question that has puzzled researchers for decades: Where did syphilis come from?

Of infants born to mothers with primary or secondary syphilis, up to 50% will be premature, stillborn, or die in the neonatal period; further, most of these children are born with congenital ...

In the spring of 1495, the French army, under the reign of Charles VIII, faced an unexpected enemy. Soldiers weren’t battling ...

Stark County and much of Northeast Ohio have been hit with the highest number of syphilis cases in recent memory.

Martin Heinrich introduced the Maternal and Infant Syphilis Prevention Act, which would guide states on best practices to prevent pregnant women from passing the disease on to their child.

Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection (STI) that can be passed through unprotected sex or contracted congenitally, meaning it can be passed from mother to child via pregnancy. In some cases ...

As a child I stood in the mid­dle of the block ... Lin­coln told him that he had been infected with syphilis in Beard­stown in 1835 or 1836 (by a pros­ti­tute). Hern­don wrote to his (biog­ra­pher) co ...

Syphilis infections rose by 58 percent in greater Minnesota. There were also reports of infections in females of child-bearing age, though most infections are seen among males, particularly men who ...

and maternal and child health clinics — an opportunity to screen for syphilis. So far, there is no official guidance on preconception screening for persons planning a pregnancy, according to ...

Syphilis transmitted from a mother to a child can result in birth defects, miscarriages and infant mortality. • The updated order directs medical professionals to test pregnant women ...