A man went to the emergency room after being in and out of hospitals for a month, and doctors found a surprising explanation ...

In 2024, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported nearly 4,000 new cases of syphilis in babies, the highest case number since the mid-1950s. Typically about 5%-10% of those reported ...

(NEXSTAR) – Health officials around the country are sounding the alarm: Syphilis cases are spiking. Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease; it’s considered congenital when it’s passed from mother ...

If "syphilis" sounds to you like an illness people got in another century, you're not alone. For decades, the infection was widely considered a disease of the past. But after years of decline, ...

Syphilis can be a tricky disease to diagnose—especially when a patient may not be sharing the whole story. Doctors in Belgium met with a real head-scratcher when an 83-year-old married man came in ...

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Sara Moniuszko is a health and lifestyle reporter at CBSNews.com. Previously, she wrote for USA Today, where she was selected to help launch the newspaper's wellness vertical. She now covers breaking ...

Rates of syphilis are skyrocketing among Minnesotans who are pregnant (“maternal syphilis”) and their babies (“congenital syphilis”). For centuries, we’ve had the technology to prevent syphilis: ...

Findings showed 76% of participants in the single-dose group had a serologic response to treatment compared with 70% of those who received the 3-dose regimen. A single injection of benzathine ...

Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have found that a single injection of the antibiotic benzathine penicillin G (BPG) successfully treated early syphilis just as well as the ...