Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Mother holding a newborn baby Getty Images/Halfpoint Images Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a ...

URGING PEOPLE TO GET TESTED. A BIG BILLBOARD ON WEST 28TH STREET OFF OF 83, WITH SYPHILIS WRITTEN IN BIG, BOLD LETTERS. A BOLD MOVE TO DRAW ATTENTION TO WHAT COULD BE A LIFE OR DEATH SITUATION.

The New York State Department of Health (NYDOH) is warning about the risks of congenital syphilis after three infant deaths related to the disease have been reported in the state so far this year. The ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - When it comes to the COVID-19 vaccine, more than 55 percent of Americans are vaccinated but folks in the Black and brown communities still lag behind. More than a third of ...

DOUGLAS COUNTY HEALTH ISSUES AN URGENT WARNING ABOUT A RISE IN A SEXUALLY TRANSMITTED INFECTION. THE HEALTH DEPARTMENT SAYS INFECTIOUS SYPHILIS RATES AND WOMEN HAVE INCREASED 450% SINCE 2020. THE ...

Health care professionals are reportedly sounding the alarm as syphilis cases are on the rise in the US. Earlier this year, Alaska health officials reported a 49 percent increase in cases of the ...

Syphilis cases in the United States shot up about 80 percent between 2018 and 2022, hitting numbers not seen since the 1950s, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC said ...

Houston, we have a problem. The number of syphilis cases in Houston, Texas, among women has jumped by 128% from 295 in 2019 up to 674 cases in 2022. That and other similar syphilis statistics have ...

Ebor, Ph.D., M.S.W., is an assistant professor of social work at San Diego State University and lives in Agoura Hills. Sutton, M.D., is a board-certified obstetrician gynecologist, medical ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — EDITOR’S NOTE — On July 25, 1972, Jean Heller, a reporter on The Associated Press investigative team, then called the Special Assignment Team, broke news that rocked the nation.

Last week, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a new study that found women giving birth in the U.S. are three times more likely to have syphilis today than they were approximately ...