Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Pre-intervention, only 6.2% encounters included syphilis testing, which increased to 52.4% postintervention.

Last week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) authorized the first at-home, OTC test to detect syphilis — a much-needed diagnostic tool for an infectious disease that has experienced a spike in ...

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has granted marketing authorization for the first at-home syphilis test. The over-the-counter First To Know Syphilis Test, made by NOWDiagnostics in Arkansas, ...

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is calling for urgent physician action after nearly 3800 infants were born with syphilis in 2022, a more than 10-fold increase from 2012. That action ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Recent CDC data showed a 17% increase in syphilis in the U.S. from 2021 to 2022. New syphilis testing ...

*Syphilis is a sexually transmitted infection caused by the bacteria Treponema pallidum. During pregnancy, this bacteria can ...

One fifth of pregnant women are not being screened in a timely manner for syphilis, according to a new study in Ontario.

Syphilis cases have been rising at an alarming rate in the United States, according to a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As concerns for syphilis and sexually ...

Compared to about a decade ago, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said congenital syphilis cases are 700% higher nationwide.

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 ...

State health officials are encouraging pregnant people to test for syphilis. That guidance comes as the number of children born with syphilis, which can be passed from parent to child during pregnancy ...