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 ...

Public health authorities warn clinicians to weigh risks and enroll patients in supervised programs: routine testing, partner management, and resistance surveillance are essential.

An effort to prevent serious and sometimes deadly congenital syphilis cases is getting started in the El Paso and Jefferson county jails after seeing success in Pueblo. Syphilis and other sexually ...

The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has issued an updated draft recommendation statement advising early screening for syphilis in all pregnant persons with no signs or symptoms of syphilis, ...

Syphilis is on the rise in San Luis Obispo County, local medical officials warned. The sexually transmitted infection — which is most commonly spread through unprotected vaginal, anal, or oral sex ...

The decades-long syphilis epidemic in the U.S. continues, as the CDC says the maternal syphilis rate spiked 28% between 2022 and 2024. The post Why maternal syphilis rates are spiking in the US ...

In the '90s, the U.S. had almost completely eliminated cases of syphilis, a sexually transmitted disease that can be devastating if left untreated. Today, rates of syphilis in the U.S. are at a ...

Data released last week by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a troubling trend: a sharp rise in the number of pregnant women diagnosed with syphilis, a sexually transmitted ...

When Karolyn Schrage first heard about the “dominoes gang” in the health clinic she runs in Joplin, Mo., she assumed it had to do with pizza. Turns out it was a group of men in their 60s and 70s who ...

After seeing a sustained spike in newborns born with syphilis, the Louisiana Department of Health Louisiana is ramping up its response to the disease, beginning with a pilot program to increase how ...

Karolyn Schrage, executive director of the Choices Medical Services clinic in Joplin, Mo., says that pregnant women, young men and teens are part of the rapidly growing number of syphilis patients she ...