News tagged with gonorrhoea
Inadequacy of current guidelines for sexually transmitted infections
Mar 10, 2009 |
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Adolescent girls reveal alarmingly high rates of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) which remain largely undetected by recommended screening guidelines. A study in Brazil, reported in the open access journal BMC Medicine, has sh ...
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Inexperienced prostitutes most at risk of sexual infections
Dec 12, 2008 |
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Less experienced prostitutes are more likely to have sexually transmitted infections (STIs). A study of more than a thousand female sex workers in Cambodia, reported in the open access journal BMC Infectious Diseases, has sh ...
Sex workers prefer remote screening for sexually transmitted diseases
Apr 01, 2009 |
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Researchers at the University of Westminster have used a simple and convenient method for screening female commercial sex workers (CSW) for sexually transmitted infections (STIs) without the need for them to attend clinics. ...
Researchers pilot new electronic system for infectious illness
Apr 10, 2008 |
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Researchers at Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Harvard Medical School, Atrius Health, and the Massachusetts Department of Public Health have created and tested a set of computer programs that use electronic medical records to ...
Energy-saving bacteria resist antibiotics
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Sep 03, 2008 |
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Bacteria save energy by producing proteins that moonlight, having different roles at different times, which may also protect the microbes from being killed. The moonlighting activity of one enzyme from the tuberculosis bacterium ...
Contraception: It's better to be doubly safe than sorry
Feb 12, 2008 |
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A new study indicates that the safe sex message is getting through to Australian women, with nearly 70 per cent of those surveyed currently using contraception and 15 per cent using not one but two contraceptive methods to ...
Can condoms prevent sexually transmitted infections other than HIV?
Jan 25, 2008 |
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Consistent condom use can reduce the spread of HIV, but are they the answer to rising rates of other sexually transmitted infections? Researchers debate the issue in this week’s BMJ.
Robots to shed light on sexual disease
Sep 28, 2005 |
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It won’t be long before automated DNA test contribute to providing more knowledge about the up to now nearly unknown sexually transmitted mycoplasma – truly more widespread than chlamydia. Mycoplasma is a bacterial infection ...
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