Patients aged between 40 and 49 years, heterosexual patients, and patients diagnosed in the emergency department are the least likely patient groups to complete syphilis treatment. Only slightly more ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Most women with syphilis during pregnancy received timely prenatal care. Substance use or a history of ...

Syphilis cases have been rising at an alarming rate in the United States, according to a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As concerns for syphilis and sexually ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A penicillin shortage in the United States is expected to last until at least mid-2024. The shortage could cause ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Alarmed by yet another jump in syphilis cases in newborns, U.S. health officials are calling for stepped-up prevention measures, including encouraging millions of women of childbearing ...

The US Food and Drug Administration is working with a French drugmaker to temporarily allow imports of a medication that treats syphilis amid an ongoing shortage of the front-line treatment. French ...

Drugmaker Pfizer is warning doctors that it expects to run low on supplies of Bicillin L-A, a long-acting injection of the antibiotic penicillin, the preferred option for treating syphilis during ...

This 1972 microscope image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a Treponema pallidum bacterium which causes the disease syphilis. (Susan Lindsley/CDC via AP) The nation’s ...

In the study, the highest risk of maternal syphilis was found in Black mothers, women aged 24 and under, unmarried women, and ...

About twice a week, a pregnant patient turns up in Dr. Irene Stafford's obstetrics office in Houston with syphilis, a sexually transmittable disease that affects more newborns in Texas than anywhere ...