Search

TIL: Some facts about bedbugs

There was a great review on bedbugs that came out of the New England Journal of Medicine1.

Bed bugs can survive on a human host for 4-5 months
Even without a human host, they survive for up to 70 days...
Most of them are resistant to permethrin now, so the best source control is vacuuming/steaming

1. Parola, Philippe, and Arezki Izri. "Bedbugs." New England Journal of Medicine 382.23 (2020): 2230-2237.

Recent Posts

A systematic review1 showed that adding an antiplatelet agent (e.g. aspirin) to a vitamin K antagonist decreased the risk of both a...

Thiazolidinediones (the -glitazones) have a known side effect of worsening heart failure in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus. This...

Check back soon

Once posts are published, you’ll see them here.