Researchers recovered ancient DNA from a 5,500-year-old skeleton in Colombia and reconstructed a genome related to Treponema pallidum. The lineage predates known syphilis strains by ~3,000 years, ...

The U.S. is giving $1.6 million to researchers to study how the hepatitis B vaccine affects newborns in Guinea-Bissau. Local ...

Medical experts have raised concerns over the growing threat of drug-resistant gonorrhoea, syphilis and staph infections, warning that these infections could become life-threatening if poorly treated.

Between 2003 and 2013, the United States was one of only eight countries that saw an increase in maternal mortality ...

Arguably, the most important thing you can have in this life is your health. No matter how much money you have or resources ...

Despite numerous criminal charges, including violence, smuggling, bootlegging, and murder, he could not be punished. The ...

Doctors began testing PSA levels in the 1980s to monitor diagnosed cancers. By the early 1990s, researchers promoted it for ...

Blood transfusion is an essential therapeutic procedure in pediatrics, often indispensable for child survival. It is required in various clinical situations such as severe anemia, severe malaria, ...

Vabbing, a viral social media trend involving dabbing vaginal secretions on the body to attract partners, has sparked health ...

A newly sequenced genome of the bacterium that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum, highlights the deep antiquity of treponemal diseases in the Americas. The findings, based on a 5,500-year-old ...

A cold front will bring a chance for isolated severe storms to part of Alabama on Saturday. The National Weather Service said it’s a low-end severe weather threat, and that stronger storms will be the ...