A damning report from the Public accounts Committee has slammed chlamydia screening services as having missed an opportunity to reduce the rates of chlamydia transmission in England.
The body said that screening services were characterised by a lack of urgency when is came to tackling the large number of tests that need to be done to [...]
A rise in the number of girls testing positive in the U.S for a sexually transmitted infection has been put down to better sexual health testing a more available chlamydia screening.
New data released in the annual federal report showed that 1 in 4 cases of chlamydia or gonorrhoea was diagnosed in girls aged between 15 [...]
As more sordid revelations emerged about the golfer Tiger Wood’s multiple affairs, the gossip columns are reporting that his long-term mistress Rachel Uchitel was extremely distressed to discover how many women he had unprotected sex with and is planning on visiting a GUM clinic.
The Woods scandal broke a couple of weeks ago with reports that, [...]
Scientists who have made a breakthrough in discovering how the body fights of the chlamydia infection believe that a vaccine for the very common sexually transmitted infection may only be a few years away.
The scientists from the Sahlgrenska Academy have discovered that that contrary to what was previously thought, when the body detects the infection [...]
The National Audit Office has lambasted the UK-wide Chlamydia screening program, calling it ‘fragmented’. In a report they said that lessons had not been learnt on how best to conduct screenings and claimed they had not provided value for money.
Each year 120,000 cases of chlamydia are diagnosed and the National Chlamydia Screening program was set [...]
Scientists believe that common sexually transmitted diseases like chlamydia and the herpes virus could increase the chances of someone having a stroke. They believe that the common pathogens could accelerate arterial disease, which itself increases the chances of someone having a stroke.
The study, published in the online edition of the Archives of Neurology, tracked 1,625 [...]
As women become more aware of the dangers of unsafe sex, the condom has taken over from the pill as the most popular form of contraception in the UK.
Data released by the Office for National Statistics showed that for 1 in 4 women, the condom was their first choice of protection, equalling the number of [...]
A new study has shown teenage boys are considerably less likely than girls to take responsibility for preventing the spread of sexually transmitted infections.
Published in the Journal Midwifery, the most shocking aspect of the research was that teenage boys often said that they did not plan to follow the advice given to them in their [...]
The Australians and the British have always had a special relationship. We gave them the Queen – admittedly, many are less that overjoyed about this, but still – and they gave us Neighbours and Ugg Boots.
Each year the cultural exchange continues as their 20-somethings come over to discover the delights of Earls Court, while we [...]
Unnerving new research published at the Australasian Sexual Health Conference 2009 has exposed alarming statistics concerning the growing problem of Chlamydia in Australia.
The study focused primarily on travellers, targeting more than 430 backpackers picked at random from numerous hostels scattered across Australia. The test subjects were made up of a roughly equal number of men [...]
A controversial scheme by the National Union of Students has seen university students offered free booze in exchange for having a sexual health check. The union has created the nationwide scheme in an attempt to lower the rates of Chlamydia infection and encourage teenagers to get a Chlamydia test.
The events have been held during Freshers [...]
A scientist has been awarded a grant to develop a vaccine for the currently incurable virus that causes genital herpes.
The research scientist, at the Southern Illinois University School of Medicine, has been given the two-year federal grant for $400,125 by the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
William P. Halford is the associate professor of [...]