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Spring breakers should keep an eye out for bed bugs during travels
Mar 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- During the past three to four years, the instances of bed bug infestations have increased at an alarming rate at motels and hotels around the world. Instances of bed bug infestations have been reported at ...
How Bed Bugs Outsmart the Chemicals Designed to Control Them
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Jan 08, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Bed bugs, once nearly eradicated in the built environment, have made a big comeback recently, especially in urban centers such as New York City. In the first study to explain the failure to control certain ...
Control, treatment of bed bugs challenging
Mar 31, 2009 |
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A review of previously published articles indicates there is little evidence supporting an effective treatment of bites from bed bugs, that these insects do not appear to transmit disease, and control and eradication of bed ...
Scientists use bed bugs' own chemistry against them
Jun 02, 2009 |
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Scientists here have determined that combining bed bugs' own chemical signals with a common insect control agent makes that treatment more effective at killing the bugs.
Bed bugs: Awake to the growing problem
Nov 01, 2007 |
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Bed bugs have taken up residence in urban areas across the country, and the infestation may only get worse, said a Penn State entomologist.
Panasonic develops bed that turns into wheelchair
Sep 18, 2009 |
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Japan's Panasonic Corp. has developed a "Robotic Bed" that can transform into a wheelchair to make life easier for elderly and disabled people, it announced Friday.
Troops in Iraq fight bugs, parasites
May 07, 2007 |
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A parasitic disease transmitted by sand flies has become so common in Iraq that troops call it the "Baghdad boil."
The ugly truth about one night stands
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 11, 2009 |
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Men are far more interested in casual sex than women. While men need to be exceptionally attractive to tempt women to consider casual sex, men are far less choosy. These findings by Dr Achim Schützwohl, from the Department ...
Insecticide-treated bed nets reduce infant deaths in Democratic Republic of Congo
Sep 03, 2009 |
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Giving insecticide-treated bed nets to nearly 18,000 mothers at prenatal clinics in the Democratic Republic of Congo prevented an estimated 414 infant deaths from malaria, a study by University of North Carolina at Chapel ...
Hospital infections cost $1 billion in lost bed days
Sep 02, 2009 |
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Infections caught in hospital are costing the Australian healthcare system more than 850,000 lost bed days, according to a new study by Queensland University of Technology.
Laboring without the labor bed: It's a good thing
Jul 06, 2009 |
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A University of Toronto pilot study that re-conceptualized the hospital labour room by removing the standard, clinical bed and adding relaxation-promoting equipment had a 28 per cent drop in infusions of artificial oxcytocin, ...
Female ticks have market on gluttony
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Apr 27, 2007 |
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Sex makes you fat. If you're a female tick, that is. The "truly gluttonous" female ixodid tick increases her weight an astounding 100 times her original size after she mates, so a University of Alberta researcher ...
New project to create 'FutureGrid' computer network
Technology / Computer Sciences
Sep 29, 2009 |
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The San Diego Supercomputer Center at UC San Diego is part of a team chosen by the National Science Foundation to build and run an experimental high-performance grid test-bed, allowing researchers to collaboratively develop ...
Muscle weakness a common side effect of long stays in intensive care units
Oct 27, 2009 |
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After decades of focusing on the management of respiratory failure, circulatory shock and severe infections that lead to extended stays in hospital intensive care units, critical care researchers are increasingly turning ...
Rensselaer researchers to develop and test next-generation radar systems
Sep 30, 2009 |
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Researchers at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute have received a grant for $792,000 from the U.S. Air Force to create a new laboratory for developing and testing next-generation radar systems that overcome ...
