Increasing numbers of people in industrialized countries are at risk from permanent damage to their vision as a result of the sexually transmitted disease syphilis, an international team of ...

Losing a child late in pregnancy is a cause of extraordinary grief. For many reasons, stillbirths are routinely under-reported, which has made it difficult to quantify the global burden, to determine ...

The secrets are in the sequence. Drs. Nicole Lieberman and Alex Greninger from the Greninger Lab generated 196 near-complete Treponema pallidum genome sequences to gain a better understanding of the ...

June 26 (UPI) --Researchers have developed a way to culture the elusive bacteria that causes syphilis. Despite a century of work, scientists haven't been able grow the spiral-shaped bacterium, called ...

The English, Germans and Italians called it the French disease. Polish people dubbed it the German disease, while Russians blamed it on Poles. In France, it was named the “Neapolitan disease” after ...

Genital ulcers could be one of many sexually transmitted diseases or an infection that is not transmitted by sex. An expert walks you through a case. This is the first of a three-part series on ...

Despite the availability of effective treatments and previously effective public health strategies, there has been a resurgence of syphilis in the United States. Syphilis is a sexually transmitted ...

June 12 (UPI) --Scientists have identified a protein on the outside of the bacteria that causes syphilis and has shown promise in early research as a potential vaccine target against the sexually ...

Losing a child late in pregnancy is a cause of extraordinary grief. For many reasons, stillbirths are routinely under-reported, which has made it difficult to quantify the global burden, to determine ...