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 ...

"This is not just a health care crisis, but a call to action for all of us that the consequences of this disease, ...

With a growing number of congenital syphilis cases, state officials this week renewed a public health order dating back to 2021, encouraging physicians to increase testing for the sexually transmitted ...

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

Cook County health officials launch campaigns against a significant rise in syphilis, particularly congenital cases.

Oral cefixime is a third-generation cephalosporin that has a similar antibacterial spectrum to ceftriaxone. Cefixime is ...

The CDC ranks New Mexico as having the highest rate of congenital syphilis, meaning it is passed from mother to infant during birth; and the second highest rate of syphilis infection generally in ...

Pregnancy itself does not seem to alter the clinical progression of syphilis in the female: As in the nonpregnant woman, the primary lesion (Fig. 2) can appear 10 to 90 days after the causative ...

Back when Dr. Jaleh Akhavan was in her residency about five years ago, syphilis was considered a rare sight in a expectant mother. No longer. “Now I probably see it maybe one to two times a ...