Most of the women who tested positive for the sexually transmitted disease were identified during Antenatal Clinics (ANC), alongside HIV.

Chatham County is seeing a rise in sexually transmitted diseases, specifically syphilis. Nationwide, cases are dropping, but ...

As some Alexandria STI rates are higher than the state and region's, a public health clinic is offering free syphilis testing ...

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

A pregnant female patient with penicillin desensitization had her pregnancy complicated by congenital syphilis. Among the 12 patients, all were delabeled of their penicillin allergy.

Methods: We retrospectively reviewed penicillin allergy labeled patients with confirmed syphilis referred to our drug allergy clinic for assessment and delabeling from January 2014 to January 2024.

With the goal of delabeling patients with syphilis who believed themselves to be allergic to penicillin, we collected data on demographics, syphilis stage, results of penicillin allergy testing ...

The US Food and Drug Administration authorized the first at-home over-the-counter test for syphilis Friday.

FDA clears first at-home syphilis test amid surge in cases Syphilis was nearly eliminated in the 1990s, but rates have since soared to a 70-year high.

Houston doctors have implemented a new testing program that, if widely adopted, could help address the nationwide epidemic of babies born with syphilis. “We’re on the cutting edge,” said Dr ...