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 ...

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 ...

A single dose of penicillin works just as well to cure early syphilis as the three-injection regimen now used by many doctors, a new clinical trial suggests. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI A single ...

A rising number of syphilis infections in Arlington is driving a push to do better at testing and treating the sexually ...

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 ...

New numbers show a 28% jump in cases over two years. We break down what's behind these numbers.

The latest report finds that the maternal syphilis rate increased 16% from 2022 to 2023 and an additional 10% from 2023 to ...