Hirschhorn and Feldman argue convincingly that the doctors would have known very well by then that tabes was caused by syphilis in the majority of cases and would have opted to save her ...
Subsequently in 1868, Charcot described neuropathic arthropathy in a patient with tabes dorsalis. Although Charcot initially described the sequelae of tertiary syphilis, his name is given to ...
The funny thing about syphilis is that it was historically more ... time called 'paresis', 'general paralysis of the insane' or 'tabes dorsalis'—were inexorably doomed to a particularly horrible ...
It didn't do much for the sleeping sickness microbe, but it seemed to kill another (recently discovered) microbe, the one which causes syphilis. At that time, syphilis was a disabling and ...
The Food and Drug Administration on Friday authorized the first at-home syphilis test amid surging cases of the bacterial ...
A syphilis outbreak in Shawnee County now accounts for more than one-fourth of Kansas' syphilis cases this year. "The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) and the Shawnee County ...
Two new public awareness campaigns aim to address a recent rise in syphilis cases in Cook County. The efforts, both geared toward pregnant people or people looking to get pregnant, will draw ...
You may also be able to prevent infection with chlamydia, gonorrhea, or syphilis if you get a dose of an antibiotic within a day or so of being exposed. Circumcision. For men or those assigned ...
The Annals of Pharmacotherapy. 2008;42(2):226-236. Latent syphilis is a stage in which patients are seroreactive but asymptomatic. [24] It occurs between the disappearance of secondary syphilis ...
A sudden increase in syphilis infections in Japan has prompted experts to call for better sex education and more testing. Around 13,000 cases of the sexually transmitted disease (STD) have been ...
Cases of infectious syphilis have risen sharply in the last decade, including in women in their reproductive years. That can lead to stillbirth, miscarriage or disability. Syphilis cases have ...
A billboard warning about the dangers of pregnant people passing syphilis to their babies is displayed near West Irving Park Road and North Clark Street in Wrigleyville. Tyler Pasciak LaRiviere ...