Due to changes in sexual behavior, a new approach to clinically evaluating sexually-transmitted diseases (STDs) is needed in order to detect primary and secondary findings in sites which are not ...

Disease detectives in Chicago say they have been seeing a worrisome trend: Patients complaining of unusual symptoms like vision and eye problems, headaches and hearing loss or dizziness caused by the ...

Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease that is caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum. How is the disease spread? Syphilis is spread in only one of two ways: through sexual activity, or in the ...

Doctors and health experts are warning that syphilis cases are surging in the U.S. among newborns, with a doctors group now urging that all pregnant patients be screened three times for the sexually ...

Causes of syphilis: Besides sexual contact, syphilis can spread through the placenta from the mother to the foetus, blood transfusion and direct contact with an open lesion (Image: Canva) Syphilis is ...

If “syphilis” sounds to you like an illness people got in another century, you’re not alone. For decades, the infection was widely considered a disease of the past. But after years of decline, ...

We report the favorable outcome of a case of bilateral chorioretinitis and uveitis in an HIV–infected patient, which started out as a unilateral ulcer on the lower eyelid. In January 2011, a ...

CHICAGO -- Disease detectives in Chicago say they have been seeing a worrisome trend: Patients complaining of unusual symptoms like vision and eye problems, headaches and hearing loss or dizziness ...