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Carol A. Cates, MSN, MBA, RN, is the chief nursing officer at Odessa Regional Medical Center. You can reach her via e-mail at [email protected] I thought long and hard about if I should write about ...

In certain circles of San Francisco, a case of syphilis can be as common and casual as catching the flu, to the point where Billy Lemon can't even remember how many times he's had it. "Three or four?

Cases of infectious and congenital syphilis have skyrocketed in Canada since 2017. In response, health advocates are calling on the government and public health authorities to quickly embrace more ...

Last year, more than 2,000 babies were born with a preventable infection that—when left untreated—can cause skeletal abnormalities, liver problems, prematurity, deafness, blindness, and stillbirth.

In certain circles of San Francisco, a case of syphilis can be as common and casual as the flu, to the point where Billy Lemon can’t even remember how many times he’s had it. “Three or four? Five ...

For almost 40 years starting in the 1930s, as government researchers purposely let hundreds of Black men die of syphilis in Alabama so they could study the disease, a foundation in New York covered ...

Former State Health Officer Dr. Thomas Dobbs recently sent out a tweet saying Forrest County's rate of syphilis cases is three times higher than Hinds County. Dobbs, who resigned from his position in ...

New numbers show a 28% jump in cases over two years. We break down what's behind these numbers.

That the arrival of Europeans in the New World in 1492 led to a massive shift in the ecological landscape has been widely accepted for the past 50 years. Suddenly a trans-Atlantic exchange – maize for ...