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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alarmed by yet another jump in syphilis cases in newborns, U.S. health officials are calling for stepped-up prevention measures, including encouraging millions of women of childbearing age and their ...

Syphilis is a conquered disease in one sense only—that the chemical means to obliterate it are on hand. Its real conquest is a problem of lining up the patients. Standard syphilis-destroyer is ...

Syphilis cases are rising in the U.S., particularly among women and babies. (Illustration: Victoria Ellis for Yahoo; Photo: Getty Images) Congenital syphilis — which is when the disease is passed from ...