Syphilis cases have surged worldwide, leaving public health officials scrounging for ways to stop the spread. Now, a large, collaborative study of syphilis genetics from four continents has found ...

TUSKEGEE, Ala. (AP) — Lucenia Dunn spent the early days of the coronavirus pandemic encouraging people to wear masks and keep a safe distance from each other in Tuskegee, a mostly Black city where the ...

(WJAR) — A new CDC report on infant mortality, which includes newborns up to age one, showed an increase in mortality rates. "It's very sobering," said Dr. Phyllis Dennery, a pediatrician-in-chief at ...

Syphilis is a serious infection that can be transmitted by a pregnant mother to her baby. If it's not diagnosed and treated in time, it can lead to problems like miscarriage, stillbirth, low birth ...

Rates of syphilis in newborn babies have risen astronomically since 2012, largely because pregnant women have not been getting screened as often as they once were, according to a new report. The ...

Syphilis is making a comeback in the United States. In 2021, total cases of the sexually transmitted disease surged by 27 percent to more than 171,000, and the rate reached a 30-year high, according ...

Venereal disease does not attract many medical researchers. There never have been great numbers of syphilologists, and their numbers and efforts have been sharply reduced since the 1945 discovery that ...