Syphilis is a treatable infection - especially in its primary and secondary stages. It is more difficult to treat in its tertiary stage. Primary and secondary syphilis can be successfully treated with ...

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 ...

Sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) are on the rise in the US, which is news no one ever wants to hear. Case numbers are up for both gonorrhea and syphilis, including congenital syphilis, which is ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A penicillin shortage in the United States is expected to last until at least mid-2024. The shortage could cause ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Most women with syphilis during pregnancy received timely prenatal care. Substance use or a history of ...

When Stephen Miller left his primary care practice to work in public health a little under two years ago, he said, he was shocked by how many cases of syphilis the clinic was treating. For decades, ...

A few weeks ago, a small biotech company called Entasis published a small paper in The New England Journal of Medicine reporting on a successful Phase 2 trial of a new drug called zoliflodacin. Though ...

The US Food and Drug Administration is working with a French drugmaker to temporarily allow imports of a medication that treats syphilis amid an ongoing shortage of the front-line treatment. French ...

Cases of syphilis in California increased 20 percent from 2016 to 2017, according to new data from the California Department of Public Health Syphilis in women has increased nearly sevenfold since ...

Doctors are seeing more patients with unusual vision and eye symptoms due to the sexually transmitted infection Amid the current syphilis “epidemic” in the U.S., doctors are seeing more patients with ...