More community-based testing for HIV and syphilis is necessary to tackle rising transmission rates in Indigenous communities.

Syphilis has been rising sharply in the United States, with especially high rates in Southern states. Now, a new study from Tulane University researchers suggests the long-term infection may carry ...

Researchers have for decades believed that of these diseases, only syphilis could be transmitted congenitally, lending to the assumption that syphilis began with Christopher Columbus’ journeys. Traces ...

Four states -- Arizona, Georgia, Louisiana, and Michigan -- enacted mandates for prenatal syphilis screening in the third-trimester of pregnancy and at delivery. These mandates were associated with a ...

When King Charles VIII of France occupied Naples in 1495, his army of nearly 20,000 mercenaries became the ground zero of the “Great Pox,” the first massive venereal syphilis pandemic in Europe, which ...

Theresa Gaffney is the lead Morning Rounds writer and reports on health care, new research, and public policy, with a particular interest in mental health, gender-affirming care, and LGBTQ+ patient ...

If “syphilis” sounds to you like an illness people got in another century, you’re not alone. For decades, the infection was widely considered a disease of the past. But after years of decline, ...

Une maladie incurable attaque depuis des années les platanes en France. Si aucun remède n’a été trouvé contre le chancre du platane, les symptômes ont clairement été identifiés. Des actions sont à ...

Chicago's new Syphilis Elimination Plan, released earlier this month, hopes to address an alarming increase here in congenital syphilis cases. Chicago’s 2023 chlamydia rate was twice the national rate ...