The USPSTF concludes with high certainty that screening asymptomatic pregnant persons for syphilis infection has a substantial net benefit. (HealthDay News) — The US Preventive Services Task Force ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Cases of congenital syphilis increased 10 times from 2012 to 2022. According to a USPSTF member, 90% of ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Pre-intervention, only 6.2% encounters included syphilis testing, which increased to 52.4% postintervention.

The US Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has issued an updated draft recommendation statement advising early screening for syphilis in all pregnant persons with no signs or symptoms of syphilis, ...

Background: More laboratories are screening for syphilis with automated treponemal immunoassays. We compared direct costs and downstream consequences when a local public health laboratory switches ...

“Opt-out screening will be an important strategy in the effort to address the syphilis epidemic,” the authors write. HealthDay News — Implementation of opt-out emergency department syphilis screening ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Few pregnant women are fully screened for syphilis in accordance with current guidelines, hints a review of records of roughly 1,900 women from four hospitals in Miami-Dade ...

This week, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) cleared the way for putting the first at-home, over-the-counter test to detect syphilis antibodies in human blood. Test-kits for syphilis for the ...

The Minnesota Department of Health reports a currently ongoing syphilis outbreak in Duluth and more than 1,800 new infections statewide in 2022, not including congenital cases. Syphilis can be ...

Facing a rise in syphilis cases among women and newborns in Hawaii, the state Department of Health is urging expanded screening and treatment for the infection. “All sexually active people with risk ...

The FDA on Friday granted marketing authorization to NOWDiagnostics for the first at-home, over-the-counter syphilis screening test. The authorization follows last year's authorization of the first at ...

Presumed active syphilis infection increased 288% during the study period, from 161 patients to 624 patients. HealthDay News — Implementation of opt-out emergency department syphilis screening leads ...