A person can order a home syphilis test online or buy one from some in-store pharmacies. Usually, an individual needs to take a blood sample from a finger prick. And more thorough tests, which can ...

The FDA granted a green light to its first at-home, over-the-counter test to detect a person’s exposure to syphilis, offering a private option to help detect the sexually transmitted infection.

Several conditions can cause a false-positive syphilis test result. However, healthcare professionals often use two different tests to diagnose a person with syphilis. Syphilis is a sexually ...

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted market authorization to the first at-home syphilis test amid a decades-long rise of cases in the U.S. The test, which detects syphilis antibodies in ...

A man went to the emergency room after being in and out of hospitals for a month, and doctors found a surprising explanation ...

Panel A shows a syphilitic chancre with a clean base and heaped-up margins. Panels B and C show scaly plaque on the palm and sole, respectively, of a patient with syphilis. Panel D shows bacteria with ...

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 ...

The U.S. syphilis epidemic slowed dramatically last year, gonorrhea cases fell and chlamydia cases remained below prepandemic levels, according to federal data released Tuesday. Last year, cases of ...

Once on the path to eliminating syphilis, the United States has reversed course, with cases of the infectious disease surging. The crisis is hitting pregnant people and babies especially hard. The ...