Chlamydia trachomatis is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections (STIs). Chlamydia can lead to serious complications if untreated. It can be hard to know if you have chlamydia since it ...

Credit: Getty Images / Rodolfo Parulan Jr. If you're sexually active, chances are you've probably worried about STIs at some point. Google is often our first port of call when we're in the midst of an ...

British researchers have developed a quick and painless method for telling if a man has chlamydia - one of the most common sexually transmitted diseases. It's a urine test that produces relatively ...

Chlamydia is one of the most common sexually transmitted infections and can be contracted through unprotected vaginal, oral or anal sexual intercourse with an infected person. Around 70% to 80% of ...

Researchers conducted a meta-analysis of multiple databases from 1995-2021 to assess the diagnostic sensitivity of commercially available tests that use vaginal swabs versus urine specimens to detect ...

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - A new 30-minute point-of-care (POC) test using self-collected vaginal swabs works as well as lab-based molecular diagnostic tests for detecting chlamydia and gonorrhea, new ...

Researchers at John Hopkins University have developed a device dubbed "mobiLab" that can test for chlamydia at home and send the results to your smartphone. While incredibly limited in its specificity ...

Australia's Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) has recently approved a self-test kit for chlamydia and gonorrhea for women and other people with a vagina. Reports indicate these at-home tests will ...

When, a handful of years ago, the U.S. and Canada changed their screening guidelines for cervical cancer, it was an acknowledgment that screenings for young women carried unintended harms. However, a ...

The main thing to know about chlamydia symptoms is that most people don’t notice any. The fact that chlamydia is a so-called silent illness is one big reason that the disease has become so common. It ...