Sexually transmitted infections (STIs) are rising in Europe, especially gonorrhea and syphilis, among younger adults. But one ...

What it’s looking like is a stabilization” and, hopefully, a decline will follow, state epidemiologist Dr. Rachel Herlihy said Friday.

The Russian military wants to make it harder for conscripts to secure medical exemptions from military service, including ...

Lawmakers advanced a proposal Monday designed to expand syphilis blood testing for expectant mothers to stem a rising tide of maternal and congenital syphilis. Legislative Bill 41, from ...

With Valentine’s Day around the corner, the Berrien County Health Department is reminding everyone of the importance of ...

The number of primary and secondary syphilis cases in young women rose dramatically in the late 1980s and early 1990s, due to illicit drug use and the exchange of drugs for sex. Of infants born to ...

Untreated syphilis in pregnant women is the second leading cause of stillbirths globally. Should the infant survive, it could ...

In our clinic, quantitative serologic tests are taken routinely on all patients with early syphilis, but these have proved to be of the greatest value in the cases with negative dark-field lesions ...

The European Health Agency ECDC is sounding the alarm: more and more cases of infectious sexually transmitted diseases are ...

The total number of reportable sexually transmitted diseases (STDs) in Minnesota dropped slightly to 16,702 in 2009, a 5 percent drop from the previous year, state health officials reported today.

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 ...