Early syphilis therapy was a focus of intense research in the early 20th century with many and varied approaches being used. The development of penicillin and its efficacy in the treatment of ...

Ehrlich and Hata tested 606 over and over on mice, guinea pigs, and then rabbits with syphilis. They achieved complete cures within three weeks, with no dead animals. In 1910 the drug was released ...

If the infection is caught in either of these two stages, the cure is a shot of penicillin, which kills the bacteria. Left untreated, syphilis can enter another, more dangerous phase, attacking ...

Syphilis is back on the rise across the United States after being nearly eliminated in the late 1990s and early 2000s. But in ...

One significant illness that received a targeted treatment was syphilis. Although its origins are still unknown, today we understand syphilis to be a sexually transmitted bacterial infection that ...

A regional collaboration called the Stop Syphilis Coalition is launching a public awareness campaign this month to educate ...

Legislation to require parental consent for minors for birth control and STI treatment goes against guidance from leading ...

The nation’s largest coalition of obstetricians issued an urgent warning Thursday calling on doctors to expand testing for syphilis during pregnancy amid a surge of cases in recent years.

While appropriate treatment of the pregnant female can prevent congenital syphilis, the major deterrent has been the inability to effectively identify these women and get them to undergo treatment.

The Chemung County Health Department has extended the hours for its sexually transmitted infection (STI) clinic. Hours for ...

A poster promoting early treatment for syphilis, showing cured and sick men, May 14, 1941. (Work Projects Administration Poster Collection - Library of Congress/Wikipedia Commons) More than a century ...

These numbers "reflect a failure of the U.S. health system," the CDC said, especially because testing and treatment for syphilis more than a month before delivery could easily prevent infections ...