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The funding will be used in two projects to combat growing syphilis rates in men and women in underserved areas.

Congenital syphilis, when a fetus is exposed to syphilis during pregnancy, can lead to stillbirth, miscarriage and fetal ...

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

Delabeling patients with syphilis who believe they are allergic to penicillin is safe, according to a study presented ...

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

In 2019, Alberta Health declared a syphilis outbreak after recording levels of infections not seen since the 1940s. Last year ...

Biosynex SA (FR:ALBIO) has released an update. Biosynex’s subsidiary, Chembio Diagnostics, has received a $1.5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to develop a rapid ...

About 10% of Americans believe they are allergic to penicillin, and approximately 90% of those patients are not actually allergic.

Queen’s University and Kingston, Frontenac and Lennox and Addington (KFL&A) Public Health are leading the collaborative study entitled Syphilis Point-of-care Rapid testing and Immediate Treatment ...

A surge in syphilis cases across Michigan has sounded alarms for healthcare workers and communities alike, exposing significant risks for vulnerable populations—especially women of childbearing age ...

If untreated, syphilis could progress to neurological syphilis, Vise said. "It might just be one chancre [in a person's ...