News tagged with bedbugs

Bedbugs: Easy to attract, hard to eliminate

(HealthDay)—Death, taxes ... and bedbugs? Infestations of bedbugs are on the rise in the United States and elsewhere, and while people are "bedbug magnets," the tiny pests are hard to detect, an expert ...

Health Feb 09, 2013 | not rated yet | 1

Bedbugs can infest your office, too

(HealthDay) -- Add bedbugs to your list of potential occupational health hazards. A new report reveals nearly half of the employees of a U.S. government office in Tennessee were bitten by the blood-thirsty ...

Health Apr 20, 2012 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 |

Little evidence that insect bite remedies work

There is little evidence that over the counter remedies for simple insect bites actually work, and in most cases, no treatment at all will suffice, concludes an evidence review in the April Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB). ...

Medications Apr 11, 2012 | not rated yet | 0

Scores got sick, 1 died trying to kill bedbugs

(AP) -- Worried about bedbugs? Maybe you should be more concerned about the insecticides used to get rid of them.

Health Sep 22, 2011 | not rated yet | 0