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Every hour a baby is born in China with syphilis, as the world's fastest-growing epidemic of the disease is fueled by men with new money from the nation's booming economy, researchers say. The easy-to ...

Cases of newborn syphilis in the United States have risen for the past 12 years, despite a slowdown in the past year or two, according to new data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Dr. Alla Kushnir was alarmed. In the decade she’d been at Cooper University Hospital in Camden, she rarely tested babies for congenital syphilis. But about five years ago, she noticed a troubling ...

This 1966 microscope photo made available by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows a tissue sample with the presence of numerous, corkscrew-shaped, darkly-stained, Treponema pallidum ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Evidence remains consistent with past research supporting syphilis screening in pregnant people, the USPSTF said ...

Skye McGregor is the recipient of a National Health and Medical Research Council Emerging Leadership Level 1 Investigator Grant 2025240. The Kirby Institute receives funding from the Australian ...

CHICAGO (WAND) — Last week, the Illinois Department of Public Health (IDPH) announced the launch of a new data collection process to learn more about the troubling increase in congenital syphilis ...

BATON ROUGE, La. (WAFB) - Congenital syphilis testing has been recommended by medical professionals in the first and third trimester since 2014, but a new pilot program by the Louisiana Department of ...

The Ministry of Health and Wellness is advising the public that cases of syphilis are increasing in Barbados and is urging ...

Syphilis cases have increased nearly 80% from 2018 to 2022, CDC data shows. The first at-home, over-the-counter antibody test for syphilis received marketing authorization from the U.S. Food and Drug ...

LONDON, June 16 (Reuters) - Cheap, simple tests and treatments for syphilis in pregnancy could prevent more than half of newborn deaths and stillbirths related to the disease, which kills 500,000 a ...