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The recent rise in sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the United States foreshadowed the new monkeypox outbreak.

Within the tribe’s health system, COVID-19 cases are on the decline and monkeypox has yet to make an appearance, but syphilis is gaining traction, according to Public Health Medical Director

An infectious disease specialist shares his concerns that the risks of the monkeypox outbreak have been minimized, and that the response to date has been inadequate.

Scientists present their dermatological approach to a suspected monkeypox case.

Citing fewer visits for preventive services during the pandemic, the AMA is creating a toolkit for physicians to help identify patients with HIV, TB, and sexually transmitted diseases.

In a new case study, researchers described the case of a male patient with monkeypox.

He was delirious from the pain of a quickly spreading rash, but it took six telehealth appointments, one urgent care visit, and two emergency room trips before he was finally diagnosed and treated.

Heller, who now lives in Southport near Wilmington, was the only woman on a small Associated Press special assignment team. In 1972, she broke the news of how the U.S. government denied medical treatment to hundreds of Alabama Black men that they knew to have syphilis.

Jean Heller was toiling away on the floor of the 1972 Democratic National Convention in Miami when an AP colleague from the opposite end of the country handed her a thin manila...

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the shutdown of the Tuskegee syphilis study.