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news.discovery.com Good night, sleep tight, don’t let the bed bugs bite! Those tiny, bloodsucking pests are making a comeback, infesting homes and hotels nationwide. Entomology professor Mike Raupp gives Jorge Ribas a closer look at the creepy critters.

Douglas C. Lane Associates Portfolio Manager Matt Vetto on how to prevent a bed bug infestation.

After months of unexplained, mysterious itchy bites, Dan and Anita Sue Wood discovered their Grand Rapids home was infested with bed bugs.

New York’s famed Lincoln Center is battling bed bugs, with the critters showing up in non-public areas of the theater. (Oct. 15)

SEE HUNDREDS OF BED BUGS FEED ON LOU SORKIN’S ARM. In a scene from Bill Schutt’s book, Dark Banquet: Blood and the Curious Lives of Blood-Feeding Creatures, American Museum of Natural History entomologist Lou Sorkin shows off his research colony of bed bugs before allowing hundreds of bed bugs to bite him and suck blood [...]

The pesky pests may have finally met their match!

This aint no fairy tail. The bedbug is real and it’s hungry. Take a look the entomological phenomenon that’s living where you sleep! Produced and Edited by Jordan Gzesh, Joe Potter, and Kyle Scott Tekiela for alt.news 26:46.

Don’t doze off just yet. Maybe they should be called bed blood bugs, an army of these can attack a person 500 times in one night! See All National Geographic Videos video.nationalgeographic.com

There has been a great deal of influenza activity in the world and in the news since the spring of 2009, as the swine flu continues to make headlines everywhere. Since the spread of this particular flu has turned into a pandemic, fear has also been spreading with each death it leaves in its wake. [...]

No one likes coming down with a cold. It can disrupt anyone’s life. You have a terrible cough, congestion and might even be running a fever. So you decide to wait it out but it only seems to be getting worse. You may need to consider that you have something a bit more serious than [...]

You don’t always have to wait for sinus infection to strike before you take action. In fact, there are steps you can take to prevent this from happening and here are a few. 1. Moisten the air in your home. You can do this by buying a humidifier or an air conditioning unit as this [...]

Acupuncture is that old time Chinese tradition of inserting needles in different parts of the body to alleviate pain and treat different diseases.  According to Chinese philosophy, disease and pain occur due to an imbalance between two main forces of nature known as yin and yang.The Chinese believe that acupuncture restores that balance that has [...]

Infertility is now considered a common threat to men and women of any age.  This disorder can cause so much stress and hassle to couples who badly want to start their own family.However, if ever you find yourself suffering from the disorder, you can find yourself the right infertility solutions and options that you can [...]

It is possible to cope with panic attacks effectively, till date there is yet to be any factual cure for anxiety. This is due to the reason that anxiety occurs due to one’s emotional feelings that are responsible for destabilizing one’s living conditions. Anxiety is considered to be usual, but when it occurs in surplus [...]

The most common cause of tooth loss in adults is gum disease. It starts off mildly, with plaque building up on your teeth. Plaque that is left on your teeth, if not removed, then begins to irritate the gums. Well, actually, it is the harmful secretions of bacteria living under the plaque that do that. [...]

You are most likely staring at the mirror only to find that you have been plagued by oral herpes! Now you have this transmittable condition your next question is what am I able to begin doing to get shot of it? Well if you’re like thousands of people that know absolutely nothing about this condition [...]

Infertility is one of the biggest issues that couples have been facing for a long time: PCOS and infertility. With all the advantages that modern technology has today, there will surely be something that science can do for you. Although a lot of people have had the displeasure of undergoing such an ordeal, it is [...]

Changes that happen in our bodies are normal. However it is always best to see a doctor when these changes come with pain and other abnormalities that hamper the things we do every day. If you feel something in your breasts which cause you to think that you have breast cancer, do not panic right [...]

If you have been informed that you’re at risk for liver disease, there are several things that you can do to prevent the disease from getting any worse. Even if you’ve been diagnosed with advanced liver disease, you can improve your health if you know how to recognize the symptoms and find natural supplements that [...]

Maintaining the health of all of your internal organs is very important, and if you’ve been experiencing fatigue and skin discoloration lately, you may want to make an appointment with your doctor to see if acute liver failure is the culprit. Here is some information about the condition, as well as they ways to recognize [...]

Endometriosis which derives from the term endo and the word metra which means womb is that disease that affects the women’s uterus,.The uterus is the part where the baby develops during pregnancy.  The uterus of a woman usually has a tissue that lines it; in endometriosis, these tissues develop in the areas of the external [...]

The thought of having kids of your own is one thing that couples always look forward to.  It is said that kids are not just the fruits of a couple’s love for each other but they also benefit a lot out of that love.Aside from these signs, for most couples having a family is the [...]

Many want kids, but not necessarily their own. You can understand the way it is by the increasing number of single parents and adolescent pregnancies, for both the poor and rich countries. As the large part of the world becomes too populated, there is a also an increase in the number of couples whose fervent [...]

Diabetes Type 1 Type 1 diabetes is a disease that destroys all of a person’s cells that are responsible for producing insulin in the person’s pancreas.In order to sustain life you must regulate your body’s natural sugar if your body doesn’t becomes unable to regulate your blood sugar levels then it becomes necessary to inject [...]

If you are in search of a no frills response to how to stop food cravings – I’d have to say just stop eating too much but is this really it?. I have heard and used this line a number of times before, at home at work and while with my friends. Let me spend [...]

If you live in the north, then you are no doubt aware that fall and winter bring the flu season.. This year Swine flu has gotten front page in the news. It is so famous that the vaccine sells out as soon at it arrives. Health officials claim that 5 to 20% of the US [...]

You never noticed it before, but now you have a mole on your arm that seems to be changing color. It appears like any other moles on the body and have a scaly surface. This could be squamous cell carcinoma skin cancer. How does this type of cancer appear? Squamous cell carcinoma skin cancer generally [...]

If you are over the age of fifty, have light colored skin, eyes and hair, are exposed to sunlight often, have had an unusual amount of x-rays or are exposed to chemicals often, you may be a high risk for squamous cell skin cancer. Squamous cell carcinoma skin cancer is very common amongst people who [...]

Asthma medication is quite common because the disease itself is wide spread across the world and is very common among all age groups. Could it be that because the condition is common people pay little attention to asthma medication? Surveys shows that absolute majority of individuals have no clue about the significances brought forth by [...]

Colon Clense Colorectal cancer is a disease of the colon and rectum regions that is caused by growths originating from the large intestine. Benign growths are known as polyps while malignant growths are referred to as cancers. If benign polyps aren’t uncovered and extracted, they can grow into malignant cancers. Malignant cancers in the colon [...]