Why has this asymptomatic man in his 60s with an unremarkable medical history suddenly developed gray-white plaque on his soft palate? That's the question facing Jianjun Qiao, MD, PhD, of Zhejiang ...

ONE of the most popular misconceptions of the medical profession is that the primary lesion of syphilis is always single. In fact, many physicians have been known to eliminate syphilis as a part of ...

A dentist in Mexico observed that one of his patients had a strange sore on the roof of his mouth. Although the patient could not explain how the sore came to form, further investigation of his ...

Causes of syphilis: Besides sexual contact, syphilis can spread through the placenta from the mother to the foetus, blood transfusion and direct contact with an open lesion (Image: Canva) Syphilis is ...

The Hamilton County Health Department’s Sexual Health Clinic encourages the public to practice safe sex and routine testing after seeing a significant increase in syphilis. Syphilis is a sexually ...

Syphilis is a sexually transmitted disease that is caused by the bacterium Treponema pallidum. How is the disease spread? Syphilis is spread in only one of two ways: through sexual activity, or in the ...

But after years of decline, syphilis is quietly making a comeback, with rates now higher than at any time since the 1950s. And here’s the tricky part: Someone might not even realize they have it. That ...

The resurgence of syphilis in high income countries, after low incidence for the past two decades, has left many doctors unfamiliar with the many manifestations of the disease. This recent resurgence ...

The first historical account of syphilis dates to spring 1495, when a seemingly mysterious disease ravaged the soldiers in King Charles VIII of France’s Italian campaign, then propagated throughout ...