The US has recently added 53 more measles cases to its groewing total, largely fueled by outbreaks in 3 states, though 44 ...

Increasing numbers of people in industrialized countries are at risk from permanent damage to their vision as a result of the sexually transmitted disease syphilis, an international team of ...

Syphilis spreads primarily through vaginal, anal or oral sex, Shen explains. Condoms greatly reduce risk, but they do not fully eliminate it because the bacteria can still enter through tiny breaks in ...

Counties in the Midwest and West are becoming new battlegrounds. This story is from Kaiser Health News When Karolyn Schrage first heard about the “dominoes gang” in the health clinic she runs in ...

Tyler Broghammer, a sexually transmitted infection caseworker, opens a cooler filled with syringes of penicillin on April 24, 2024, at Oyate Health Center in Rapid City. (Seth Tupper/South Dakota ...

The number of new syphilis cases nationwide continued to fall in 2000, reaching an all-time low of 5,979 infections, federal health officials said Wednesday. But several areas are seeing increased ...

June 12 (UPI) --Scientists have identified a protein on the outside of the bacteria that causes syphilis and has shown promise in early research as a potential vaccine target against the sexually ...

Sexually transmitted infections are on the rise nationwide and in Oregon, with public health officials encouraging sexually active individuals to get tested because some people can have an infection ...

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 ...

Losing a child late in pregnancy is a cause of extraordinary grief. For many reasons, stillbirths are routinely under-reported, which has made it difficult to quantify the global burden, to determine ...

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 ...

Losing a child late in pregnancy is a cause of extraordinary grief. For many reasons, stillbirths are routinely under-reported, which has made it difficult to quantify the global burden, to determine ...