The number of babies born with syphilis was 10 times higher last year in the United States than it was in 2012, according to data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Congenital ...

Silva is a pediatrician and newborn hospitalist in La Jolla and lives in Rancho Peñasquitos. In California, the number of babies born with syphilis (congenital syphilis) is increasing rapidly, ...

Several weeks ago, the ADN relayed an urgent recommendation from Dr. Anne Zink, Alaska’s chief medical officer. “Everyone of reproductive age who is sexually active should be tested for syphilis if ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Eight times as many babies were born with syphilis in Colorado in 2022 as in 2017, and while the numbers are still small, the public health community is ...

Syphilis cases in the United States are rising at an alarming pace, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released on Tuesday. “We have long known that these ...

Newborn syphilis cases, which can be fatal, have risen more than tenfold in the last decade and almost 32% in a single year, according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention ...

Little Rock (KATV) — The Arkansas Department of Health is encouragingsyphilis testing, prevention, and treatment as cases drastically increase across the state. The department said that the disease is ...

More than $5.5 million of the contract will be put toward assessing the impact of providing a biomedical intervention called DoxyPEP, which provides the antibiotic doxycycline to help avoid infection ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Judy Stone focuses her writing on infectious diseases. A young pregnant woman of African decent, lays out on an exam table ...