Adams County Medical Officer Bernadette Albanese says she has seen the impact time and time again; a baby infected by infected by congenital syphilis. Health leaders and elected officials in Adams ...

To better capture structural risk factors for syphilis such as community and sexual networks, predictive models that incorporate early syphilis rates among men, violent crime rates, race or ethnic ...

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 ...

The National Institutes of Health's National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) has awarded grants for 10 projects to improve diagnostic tools for congenital and adult syphilis - ...

SALEM, Ore. (KPTV) - The Marion County Health & Human Services is urging people to get tested for syphilis as numbers rise in the state and around the country. Between 2017 and 2021, cases of syphilis ...

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 age and their ...

MADISON, Wis. -- The Wisconsin Department of Health Services issues a memo Tuesday calling on health care providers to increase screening and testing for syphilis, especially for pregnant mothers. The ...

In a busy clinic in Jackson, Mississippi, a clinician performs a rapid syphilis test on a pregnant woman. Within 15 minutes, the results are in — she is infected — and treatment can begin immediately.

As congenital syphilis cases surge, state mandates may not be enough to keep detection rat ...

SPOKANE COUNTY, Wash. — Spokane County health officials are working to raise awareness and promote testing after finding a 50% increase in syphilis cases, with one in three people going untreated.

The first at-home, over-the-counter antibody test for syphilis received marketing authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) on Friday. This means biotechnology company ...

CDC data from 2021 show the lifetime cost of treating syphilis to be $1190. There are 4 types of syphilis: primary syphilis, secondary syphilis, latent syphilis, and congenital syphilis ...