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A man went to the emergency room after being in and out of hospitals for a month, and doctors found a surprising explanation ...

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?

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 ...

Eye syphilis is a manifestation of syphilis. Sometimes, it is the first sign of infection. It can affect almost any part of the eye and resemble a range of other eye diseases. Common symptoms of eye ...

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.

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 ...