A new experimental vaccine could put a serious dent in the widespread epidemic of chlamydia that has devastated populations of koalas. This month, scientists in Australia announced the start of a ...

Sexually transmitted infections, or STIs, include both sexually transmitted diseases, known as STDs, and the many infections that don’t progress to disease. STIs are caused by more than 30 different ...

At the Detroit Department of Health and Wellness’s sexually transmitted disease clinic, Dr. Jambunathan Ramanathan and his staff know they have to work a little differently with the teenagers who have ...

The bacteria that cause chlamydia might be trickier than we knew. In a new study this week, scientists have found evidence that these bacteria can hide in our intestines. The findings might explain ...

I’ve received questions about STIs this week, so I decided to rerun a column from 2016. Some problems never go away. Q. My ex ...

But the infection can also hide, and that can lead to worse problems. "Up to 70 per cent of women either have no symptoms, or only mild symptoms. So certainly some people don't seek treatment because ...

For more than a decade, veterinary researchers in Queensland, Australia, have been vaccinating wild koalas against chlamydia, ...

A strategy for preventing sexually transmitted infections (STIs) appears to be rapidly losing effectiveness against gonorrhea ...

Some of Sydney’s koalas are facing an uncompromising dilemma. The koalas living in one corner of Australia’s largest city are perilously inbred, researchers report February 26 in Conservation Genetics ...

Chlamydiae are sexually transmitted pathogens that can apparently survive in the human gut for a long time. Chlamydiae are sexually transmitted pathogens that can apparently survive in the human gut ...

But there are more ways to test and protect yourself than before. In recent years, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA ...

Sexually transmitted diseases in the Windsor, Ont., area have increased sharply in the past decade, led by a surge in chlamydia cases. Last year alone, cases of chlamydia increased by 208, or more ...