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The CDC also called for rapid tests to be made available beyond doctors' offices and STD clinics to places like emergency rooms, needle-exchange programs and prisons and jails.

Cases of congenital syphilis—where the infection is passed from mother to child during pregnancy—have more than trebled in recent years.

State and local health departments across the U.S. recently lost the final two years of a $1 billion federal investment to treat and prevent sexually transmitted diseases.

Looks like the old Chili's location in Tyler will soon have a new tenant.

State and local health departments across the U.S found out in June they’d be losing the final two years of a $1 billion investment to strengthen the ranks of people who track and try to prevent sexually transmitted diseases — especially the rapid increase of syphilis cases. The fallout was quick: Nevada, which saw a 44 percentage-point jump in congenital syphilis from 2021 to 2022, was supposed to get more than $10 million to bolster its STD program budget. Instead, the state&#x...

Syphilis rates in Texas are on the rise, and healthcare workers are just having a jolly good time dealing with it.

The Wisconsin Department of Health Services is sounding the alarm about a concerning increase in Syphilis cases in Wisconsin.

Five days after giving birth, Melissa Crespo was already back on the streets, recovering in a damp, litter-strewn water tunnel, when she got the call from the hospital.

Premarital screening involves several tests that detect fertility problems, hereditary diseases and disorders that run in families, or acquired diseases that spread from parent to child

LA CROSSE, Wis. (WXOW) -- The Wisconsin Department of Health Services is calling for increased testing for the STI Syphilis. It comes as cases in the state have increased from