Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Sensitizations among children with asthma included cockroach (56%) and mouse (59%). Children with upper ...

There's a good reason a cockroach elicits a feeling of disgust when we see one scuttle past. Cockroaches carry a wide range of diseases and pathogens including bubonic plague, dysentery, hepatitis, ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Babies exposed to cockroaches, pesticides and a range of other substances in the first year of life appear to have a higher risk of developing asthma later in childhood, ...

Past research has been inconsistent in determining the relative effects of mouse droppings vs. cockroach exposure on asthma in children. According to a study being presented at the American College of ...

People buying insecticide sprays to battle cockroaches are wasting their money as the insects have grown resistant to a key ingredient, sparking a call for US regulators to toughen up product testing ...

Exposure to mouse allergen was associated with air trapping but not with airflow limitation in a low-income, urban pediatric asthma population, according to a study published in The Journal of Allergy ...

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More than 15 million Americans have some form of eczema, a skin condition that causes itchy dry patches. Now a new study out of South Korea shows exposure to dust mites and cockroach allergens can ...

SWARM Biotactics, a German company, is fitting cockroaches with tiny backpacks to enable the insects to be used for reconnaissance missions.

A genetic analysis of the German cockroach explained its rise in southern Asia millenniums ago, and how it eventually turned up in your kitchen. By Sofia Quaglia They come out of hiding at night and ...

CEO Stefan Wilhelm told CBS the choice of insect was deliberate. The Madagascar hissing cockroach is large enough to carry small payloads, resilient under extreme conditions, ...