Patients aged between 40 and 49 years, heterosexual patients, and patients diagnosed in the emergency department are the least likely patient groups to complete syphilis treatment. Only slightly more ...

A single dose of penicillin works just as well to cure early syphilis as the three-injection regimen now used by many doctors, a new clinical trial suggests. File Photo by John Angelillo/UPI A single ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If “syphilis” sounds to you like an illness people got in another century, you’re not alone. For decades, the infection was widely ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Targeted routine syphilis screening may identify pregnant women who need syphilis treatment. History of syphilis ...

A shorter run of penicillin treatment can clear up syphilis, clinical trial results show One dose of benzathine penicillin G worked as well as the usual three-dose regimen to treat early syphilis A ...

Drugmaker Pfizer is warning doctors that it expects to run low on supplies of Bicillin L-A, a long-acting injection of the antibiotic penicillin, the preferred option for treating syphilis during ...

Researchers at the Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity (Doherty Institute) have developed a world-first ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . All patients in the study were delabeled. One pregnant patient’s pregnancy was complicated by congenital ...

If “syphilis” sounds to you like an illness people got in another century, you’re not alone. For decades, the infection was widely considered a disease of the past. But after years of decline, ...