When King Charles VIII of France occupied Naples in 1495, his army of nearly 20,000 mercenaries became the ground zero of the “Great Pox,” the first massive venereal syphilis pandemic in Europe, which ...

University of Alberta-led research reports that new cases of syphilis dropped in Alberta following the introduction of rapid point-of-care testing and same-day treatment. The research team compared ...

If “syphilis” sounds to you like an illness people got in another century, you’re not alone. For decades, the infection was widely considered a disease of the past. But after years of decline, ...

Objectives: The issue of biological false positives in syphilis diagnosis is gaining attention. However, limited focus exists on false positives in syphilis tests among younger populations. This study ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. The New Mexico Department of Health in October extended its 2022 public health order to maintain aggressive ...

Instagram is rolling out a new test that lets select users fine-tune what they’d like to see in their Reels and Explore feeds. Here’s what it looks like. Instagram lead Adam Mosseri took to Threads ...

Labcorp is a science and healthcare company that provides laboratory testing services worldwide. It also functions as a lab facility that conducts research, clinical studies, diagnostic testing, and ...

William Augustus Hinton (1883-1959) was an African American whose parents had been enslaved, and a groundbreaking bacteriologist who developed blood tests for detecting syphilis. A graduate of Harvard ...

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At least three babies have died of presumed congenital syphilis in New York state this year, prompting health officials to warn about the risks of the preventable infection. A pregnant woman can pass ...

Mississippi leads the nation in the rates of sexually transmitted diseases, and one is in the spotlight because the state is working to stop the spread, particularly from mom to baby. Overall, Invigor ...

Mississippi is facing a dramatic rise in syphilis cases amid a nationwide surge in the bacterial infection, with the state experiencing an 80% increase in overall cases and a staggering 1,000% ...