https://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. Allergic to peanuts? Bees? Pollen? Cockroaches? There's a shot for that. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2025-07-allergy-shots-dose-severity.html Wed, 30 Jul 2025 16:01:06 EDT news673110060 University of Queensland research into the effects of dust mite and cockroach allergens has found that different types of asthma respond differently to a new experimental treatment. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2015-10-blanket-approach-asthma-treatment-ideal.html Wed, 07 Oct 2015 07:05:04 EDT news363420294 Researchers have previously observed that certain insects—especially crickets, cockroaches and grasshoppers—tend to grow faster when they live in groups. However, no research has ever been done on group living among bed bugs until now. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-01-bed-bugs-faster-groups.html Wed, 08 Jan 2014 23:50:01 EST news308417572 Kansas State University researchers are defeating persistent bacteria known for causing infections in hospitals. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2013-07-achilles-heel-bacteria-hospital-associated-infections.html Wed, 17 Jul 2013 13:50:06 EDT news293286594 (AP)—As a Florida medical examiner tries to determine how 32-year-old Edward Archbold died after eating insects during a contest to win a snake, people around the country are asking: Why? https://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-dies-roach-eating-contest.html Tue, 09 Oct 2012 04:35:24 EDT news268976113 A father in Louisiana bludgeoned and beheaded his disabled 7-year-old son last August because he no longer wanted to care for the boy. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-12-brain-failure-human-atrocities.html Wed, 14 Dec 2011 16:14:13 EST news243101642 In New York City, the prevalence of asthma among children entering school varies by neighborhood anywhere from 3% to 19%, and children growing up within walking distance of each other can have 2-3 fold differences in risk for having asthma. In the first comprehensive effort to understand what drives these localized differences, researchers at Columbia University's Mailman School of Public Health compared the household presence of cockroach, mouse, cat, dust mite and other allergens in neighborhoods with a high prevalence of asthma to that in low-prevalence neighborhoods. They found that cockroach, mouse and cat allergens were significantly higher in homes located in neighborhoods where asthma is more common and that children in these higher-exposure homes were more likely to be sensitized to cockroach antigens. https://medicalxpress.com/news/2011-05-cockroach-allergens-homes-prevalence-childhood.html Tue, 17 May 2011 15:06:40 EDT news224863584