http://blog.biomedicalscience.org.uk Under the white coat Wed, 27 Jan 2010 20:10:55 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://blog.biomedicalscience.org.uk/2009/10/20/chlamydia-screening-promotion-problems-update/ http://blog.biomedicalscience.org.uk/2009/10/20/chlamydia-screening-promotion-problems-update/#comments Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:58:01 +0000 dapo http://blog.biomedicalscience.org.uk/?p=155 On my way home last night, I saw an advert for the National Chlamydia Screening Programme on a bus shelter.  It seems my concerns about the message not being spread is not really valid after all.  Hope the advert is a success!

]]> http://blog.biomedicalscience.org.uk/2009/10/20/chlamydia-screening-promotion-problems-update/feed/ 0 http://blog.biomedicalscience.org.uk/2009/10/18/chlamydia-screening-promotion-problems/ http://blog.biomedicalscience.org.uk/2009/10/18/chlamydia-screening-promotion-problems/#comments Sun, 18 Oct 2009 00:36:25 +0000 dapo http://blog.biomedicalscience.org.uk/?p=144 I saw a worrying story on the BBC health site today. It concerns chlamydia screening in the UK.   It seems the story is based on some research which can be found here.  A provional PDF of the research can be found here (Note this link may break in the future).  As the BBC article points out, chlamydia is a “silent infection”.  You do not get any obvious signs of having caught the infection.  With current rates are rising you would like to hope that promoting screening would be a higher proirity.    It still seems that some things are still taboo.

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