Indian River County recorded the highest rate of new cases on the Treasure Coast, with 14 per 100,000 people diagnosed with ...

Mary Shelley’s 1818 novel Frankenstein served as a chilling prophecy of the ethical dilemmas that science could pose. From ...

Chicago's new Syphilis Elimination Plan, released earlier this month, hopes to address an alarming increase here in ...

South Florida continues to report high rates of HIV and syphilis infections, with data showing significant impacts on men's health in the region.

Doctors in Belgium met with a real head-scratcher when an 83-year-old married man came in with a rare form of secondary syphilis—the second of four stages of the sexually transmitted bacterial ...

Ten Title X clinics, selected for their communities' high syphilis prevalence, participated in the initiative to implement point-of-care testing, enabling same-day diagnosis and treatment. Diagnostics ...

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 ...

The number of syphilis cases is on the rise, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC-recommended treatment for early syphilis is one dose of benzathine ...

Vials of injectable penicillin, a go-to treatment for syphilis and the only treatment considered safe for pregnant people with the disease. Congenital syphilis is a severe, disabling and often fatal ...

NEW YORK -- The New York State Department of Health (NYDOH) is warning about the risks of congenital syphilis after three infant deaths related to the disease have been reported in the state so far ...