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The funding will be used in two projects to combat growing syphilis rates in men and women in underserved areas.

Of infants born to mothers with primary or secondary syphilis, up to 50% will be premature, stillborn, or die in the neonatal period; further, most of these children are born with congenital ...

Akhavan's experience dovetails with a concerning trend health officials are seeing on both a state and a national level: a disturbing rise in congenital syphilis that, if left untreated ...

Congenital syphilis, when a fetus is exposed to syphilis during pregnancy, can lead to stillbirth, miscarriage and fetal ...

Syphilis cases have nearly quadrupled in Iowa over the past five years, with a striking 796 percent rise among females and a ...

Delabeling patients with syphilis who believe they are allergic to penicillin is safe, according to a study presented ...

In 2019, Alberta Health declared a syphilis outbreak after recording levels of infections not seen since the 1940s. Last year ...

A surge in syphilis cases across Michigan has sounded alarms for healthcare workers and communities alike, exposing significant risks for vulnerable populations—especially women of childbearing age ...

About 10% of Americans believe they are allergic to penicillin, and approximately 90% of those patients are not actually allergic.

If untreated, syphilis could progress to neurological syphilis, Vise said. "It might just be one chancre [in a person's ...