Congenital Syphilis has been spiking in Texas over the last couple of years, leaving physicians worried about the children ...

When it didn’t go away within a couple of days, he went to a clinic where he was examined, was asked about his sex life and was given a blood test, which registered positive for syphilis.

Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum. It begins with a painless sore, called a chancre, at the site where the bacteria enter the body, such as ...

The unborn baby boy had already died in the womb. Soon after, the mother’s syphilis test — given to all women before delivery — came back positive. The infection had been silently passed from mother ...

Offering optional syphilis tests in the emergency room can lead to dramatic results, UChicago Medicine researchers have found. In a study of some 300,000 emergency department encounters in Chicago ...

Gummatous syphilis: This is a complication in which soft, tumor-like lesions (called gummas) form on the skin, bones, liver, and other organs, causing major damage. Without treatment, syphilis may ...

Medically reviewed by Soma Mandal, MDMedically reviewed by Soma Mandal, MD Syphilis, a sexually transmitted infection (STI) caused by the Treponema pallidum (T. pallidum) bacterium, is curable at ...

On August 16 the U.S. Food and Drug Administration authorized the sale of the first over-the-counter at-home test for syphilis in an effort to contain a national surge in the sexually transmitted ...

Medical practitioners in the state are concerned that more fatalities from congenital syphilis are likely and have called for heightened sexually transmitted infection (STI) screenings to manage ...

What syphilis looks like depends on which of the four stages is involved. Small chancre sores appear with syphilis, a sexually transmitted infection (STI), in the primary stage. A reddish brown rash ...

It's hard, but it's not impossible. Credit: Image Credit: Mashable Composite; seamartini / iStock / Leland Bobbe / Stone / Getty Images First, the bad news: it's really hard to detect AI-generated ...