Emily H. Adhikari, MD, discusses a clinical practice algorithm designed to help clinicians evaluate patients for syphilis.

Linezolid failed to meet noninferiority criteria when compared with standard benzathine penicillin G (BPG) in the treatment of early syphilis, according to findings of the randomized, controlled ...

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 ...

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 . Most women with syphilis during pregnancy received timely prenatal care. Substance use or a history of ...

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 ...

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 ...

THIS report deals with the therapeutic pitfalls encountered in 125 patients with various types of syphilis who were treated with penicillin at the Massachusetts General Hospital subsequent to November ...

A national shortage of medication used to treat syphilis is leading to ration recommendations in Pierce County, and a recent update from the drugmaker did not bring better news. On July 5, the ...

PHYSICIANS are in agreement that congenital syphilis is preventable. Modern medicine has provided the medical profession with epidemiologic, diagnostic and therapeutic weapons so that congenital ...

AUSTIN, Texas (TEXAS TRIBUNE) - About twice a week, a pregnant patient turns up in Dr. Irene Stafford’s obstetrics office in Houston with syphilis, a sexually transmittable disease that affects more ...