News tagged with bedbugs
Yikes, bedbugs! EPA looks to stop resurgence
Apr 14, 2009 |
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(AP) -- "Don't let the bedbugs bite." Doesn't seem so bad in a cheerful bedtime rhyme, but it's becoming a really big problem now that the nasty critters are invading hospitals, college dorms and even swanky ...
Hazardous conditions in the home health-care setting may put frail and elderly at risk
Mar 04, 2009 |
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A large-scale study conducted at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health has identified the type and frequency of hazardous conditions found in the home healthcare (HHC) setting. An anonymous survey of over ...
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House-infesting brown dog tick becoming resistant to common pesticides, experts say
Sep 23, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- It's bad enough that the Southeast is bedeviled by a tick that doesn't mind taking up residence inside homes. But now researchers say they believe the brown dog tick has developed resistance ...
Long-term pesticide exposure may increase risk of diabetes
Jun 04, 2008 |
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Licensed pesticide applicators who used chlorinated pesticides on more than 100 days in their lifetime were at greater risk of diabetes, according to researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH). The associations ...
Mummy lice found in Peru may give new clues about human migration
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Feb 07, 2008 |
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Lice from 1,000-year-old mummies in Peru may unravel important clues about a different sort of passage: the migration patterns of America’s earliest humans, a new University of Florida study suggests.
Violent sex acts boost insect's immunity system
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Dec 04, 2007 |
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The long-held idea that only vertebrates have sophisticated adaptive immune systems that can protect them for life against many pathogens after being infected by them just once has been revised in recent years. It turns out ...
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