A new study has found that rates of chlamydia and syphilis plummet among people prescribed doxycycline for sexually transmitted infection prevention in routine clinical care.

It seems syphilis became more virulent at some point before Columbus arrived – and then at the end of the 15th century, as ...

The Health Protection Surveillance Centre has reported a 15.34% rise in syphilis diagnoses in Ireland during the same 44-week ...

According to the HSE's SexualWellbeing website, the primary symptom of syphilis is a small sore on the parts of the body ...

These rashes are usually red and don't itch—you might ... A nontreponemal test is a blood test that looks for evidence that ...

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Heat rash — also known as prickly heat, summer rash, or wildfire rash — occurs when the sweat gland ducts become blocked with sweat. Cooling or gently patting the rash may provide some relief.

Treponema pallidum, responsible for syphilis. Credit: NIAID / CC BY 2.0 In the spring of 1495, a deadly disease swept through Europe, leaving victims with severe physical and mental damage. The ...

Accusatory finger-pointing about the scourge, syphilis, began almost immediately. The Italians called it “the French disease”; the French called it “the Neapolitan disease”; the Russians ...

But there's evidence that 15th-century colonialists spread Syphilis worldwide. Syphilis and Christopher Columbus have more in common than you might think. Both touched down on new continents and ...

The rash may be itchy. It can appear on any part of the body, but it most often occurs on the face, chest, and sometimes on the feet and hands. Some rashes associated with acute HIV infection or ...