Health experts are seeing a rise in congenital syphilis, which is passed from mothers to their babies. It can be life threatening.

Many people believe syphilis is a disease of the past; however, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, there were more cases of syphilis reported in 2014 than newly diagnosed ...

Scientists have uncovered the oldest known genome of the bacterium responsible for syphilis, revealing a previously unknown lineage that existed thousands of years ago in the Americas.

Mississippi leads the nation in the rates of sexually transmitted diseases, and one is in the spotlight because the state is working to stop the spread, particularly from mom to baby. Overall, Invigor ...

Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have found that a single injection of the antibiotic benzathine penicillin G (BPG) successfully treated early syphilis just as well as the ...