Andrew Gans called syphilis “the great imitator.” As communicable disease bureau chief at the New Mexico Department of Health, Gans is responsible for tracking and responding to conditions spreading ...

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Drugmaker Pfizer is warning doctors that it expects to run low on supplies of Bicillin L-A, a long-acting injection of the ...

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USPSTF Reaffirms Universal Syphilis Screening in Pregnancy — Amid syphilis surge, is it time to expand screening to all three trimesters and delivery?

The Navajo Nation has a unique program to fight sexually transmitted infections, including syphilis.

Is casual sex, without protection, with one or multiple partners, something that you do often? You may end up with a sexually ...

The number of babies born infected with syphilis increased in Colorado last year, but not by as much as state officials feared when they sounded the alarm in April.

But modern syphilis may have cropped up just before the arrival of Columbus, the scientists wrote in the study, and rapidly expanded in the early colonial period corresponding with the rise in ...

When a mysterious flesh-rotting disease broke out in Europe in 1495, two years after Christopher Columbus returned from the Americas, suspicion fell on his crew.

Syphilis, an STI caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum, has re-emerged as a major public health threat in the United States, with rates skyrocketing over the past decade.

Medically reviewed by Josephine Hessert, DO Hydrocele and varicocele are two conditions affecting the external male genitalia ...