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Opt-Out Syphilis Screening in ED Improves Screening, Diagnosis
FRIDAY, Sept. 13, 2024 – Implementation of opt-out emergency department syphilis screening leads to a dramatic increase in screening and diagnosis, especially among pregnant individuals, according...
FDA Authorizes First At-Home Test for Syphilis
FRIDAY, Aug. 16, 2024 – As syphilis cases surge throughout the United States, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on Friday approved the first diagnostic at-home test to spot the bacterial...
CDC Recommends Doxycycline PEP for Gay Men, Transgender Women
WEDNESDAY, June 5, 2024 – In clinical guidelines issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and published June 4 in the agency's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report,...
Doctors Seeing More Atypical, Severe Symptoms in Patients With Syphilis
MONDAY, April 29, 2024 – Physicians are increasingly seeing cases of syphilis that do not present with typical symptoms, such as rash or skin ulcers, according to a new report presented last week at...
Syphilis Is Increasingly Displaying Atypical, Severe Symptoms
MONDAY, April 29, 2024 – Syphilis cases are on the rise in the United States, and doctors in Chicago say they are increasingly seeing cases that don't display typical symptoms, such as rash or skin...
Screen Pregnant Women for Syphilis, Ob-Gyn Group Advises
FRIDAY, April 19, 2024 – All expecting mothers should get a blood test for syphilis three times during pregnancy, new guidance issued by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists...
2016 to 2022 Saw Increase in Rate of Maternal Syphilis
TUESDAY, Feb. 13, 2024 – There was an increase in maternal syphilis rates in women giving birth in the United States from 2016 to 2022, according to a February data brief published by the National...
Recommendations Developed for Tests to Support Diagnosis of Syphilis
MONDAY, Feb. 12, 2024 – In a report issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and published online Feb. 8 in the agency's Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report, recommendations...
Syphilis Rates Among Pregnant Women Have Tripled, CDC Data Shows
TUESDAY, Feb. 13, 2024 – Maternal syphilis rates have tripled in recent years, putting thousands of newborns at risk for infection, a new U.S. government report shows. Left untreated, syphilis can...
Amid Shortage of Bicillin, FDA to Import Another Syphilis Drug
THURSDAY, Jan. 11, 2024 – The U.S. Food and Drug Administration will allow the importation of Extencilline from a French drugmaker amid the ongoing shortage of the first-line treatment for syphilis...
FDA to Import Syphilis Drug Extencilline From France Amid Shortage
THURSDAY, Jan. 11, 2024 – Amid an ongoing shortage of the first-line treatment for syphilis in the United States, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration will allow the importation of a different...
STD Specialists Warn of Shortage of Vital Syphilis Drug, Bicillin L-A
MONDAY, Dec. 4, 2023 – As syphilis cases surge across America, a group representing the nation's STD specialists says members are reporting shortages of a drug essential to fighting the disease. In...
In Michigan, 5 Women Contracted Syphilis Affecting the Eyes From the Same Asymptomatic Man
MONDAY, Nov. 27, 2023 — In a disease cluster last year, one infected but asymptomatic man spread a rare form of syphilis that affects the eyes to five Michigan women, a new report finds. Since ocular ...
One in Four Young Sexual-, Gender-Minority Individuals May Experience Syphilis
FRIDAY, Nov. 3, 2023 – One-quarter of young sexual and gender minorities (YSGM) have syphilis at some point in their lives, according to a study published online Oct. 10 in the Journal of Infectious ...
CDC Will Recommend Doxycycline After Sex to Help Prevent Sexually Transmitted Infections
MONDAY, Oct. 2, 2023 – The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is poised to recommend use of a powerful antibiotic to prevent sexually transmitted infections. On Monday, the CDC issued...