Drugmaker Pfizer is warning doctors that it expects to run low on supplies of Bicillin L-A, a long-acting injection of the antibiotic penicillin, the preferred option for treating syphilis during ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If “syphilis” sounds to you like an illness people got in another century, you’re not alone. For decades, the infection was widely ...

When Stephen Miller left his primary care practice to work in public health a little under two years ago, he said, he was shocked by how many cases of syphilis the clinic was treating. For decades, ...

Pfizer is warning physicians that it expects a new shortage of Bicillin L-A, a long-acting penicillin injection that is currently the single recommended treatment for syphilis during pregnancy, CNN ...

Syphilis cases have been rising at an alarming rate in the United States, according to a report from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. As concerns for syphilis and sexually ...

SAN FRANCISCO -- An interval of 9 days between antibiotic doses for treating syphilis during pregnancy was less effective in preventing congenital syphilis than ensuring all intervals were 6-8 days, ...

Syphilis is a conquered disease in one sense only—that the chemical means to obliterate it are on hand. Its real conquest is a problem of lining up the patients. Standard syphilis-destroyer is ...

Laurie Ayala works out of an office deep in Northwestern Medicine's Prentice Women's Hospital in Chicago, IL. Whenever the small, black landline phone on her desk rings, she answers. This phone is ...