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 ...

Syphilis spreads primarily through vaginal, anal or oral sex, Shen explains. Condoms greatly reduce risk, but they do not ...

Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have found that a single injection of the antibiotic benzathine penicillin G (BPG) successfully treated early syphilis just as well as the ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In most cases, a single BPG dose is as effective against early syphilis as a three-dose regimen. Syphilis rates ...

But this already difficult situation was complicated last spring by a shortage of a specific penicillin injection that is the go-to treatment for syphilis. The ongoing shortage is so severe that ...

Researchers funded by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have found that a single injection of the antibiotic benzathine penicillin G (BPG) successfully treated early syphilis just as well as the ...

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 ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . In the United States, there were approximately 1.6 million cases of chlamydia, 710,000 cases of gonorrhea and ...

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 ...