Sexually transmitted disease rates for U.S. adults fell last year, but syphilis in newborns continued to rise, according to ...

Congenital syphilis cases, in which infected moms pass the disease to their babies, aren't seeing the same improvements. Such infections in infants can lead to deaths or lifelong health problems such ...

Cases of newborn syphilis hit almost 4,000 in 2024, marking a troubling trend amid a broader STI epidemic, even as some ...

Johnson County was found to have one of the highest rates of sexually transmitted infections, according to Iowa’s Department ...

More than half of the congenital syphilis cases detected in the city last year were among babies whose moms either received ...

A single dose of benzathine penicillin G is as effective as three weekly doses for treating patients with early syphilis, ...

A single dose of benzathine penicillin G is as effective as three doses for early syphilis, including in people with HIV, ...

For patients with early syphilis, treatment with 1 dose of 2.4 million units of benzathine penicillin G is noninferior to ...

A single injection of benzathine penicillin G was found to be noninferior to a 3-dose regimen in the treatment of early syphilis.

A single injection of the antibiotic benzathine penicillin G has been proven to work just as well in treating early syphilis as the commonly used three-dose regimen in the United States and other ...

A single injection of the antibiotic benzathine penicillin G has been proven to work just as well in treating early syphilis as the commonly used three-dose regimen in the United States and other ...

DEAR DR. ROACH: I read that in the 1700s, animal blood was transfused into humans to cure syphilis. Is this true? -- T.U. ANSWER: The story is a bit more complicated. Transfusion from animals into ...