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Outdoor foggers with insecticides of the permethrin class help a lot in keeping mosquitoes from invading … Several strategies seem to help in keeping mosquitoes out of your yard, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

Mosquitoes aren’t just a nuisance, they transmit disease. So when you bring everyone over for a … Keeping your backyard barbecue free of mosquitoes is possible, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

More and more blood tests to screen for cancer are coming on the market, with a … How often can a blood test predict cancer risk? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

When someone has a years-long, multiple pack history of smoking, they are recommended to undergo screening … Will a blood test compel more people to be screened for lung cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

People with a history of tobacco smoking are recommended to have screening CT for lung cancer, … Can a blood test improve lung cancer screening? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

A blood test used for population based cancer screening fell short of allowing cancers to be … What do false positives and negatives have to do with screening tests for cancer? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

A blood test capable of detecting multiple cancers seems like a dream come true, yet a … Just how expensive could it be to screen populations of people for cancer using blood tests? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

When large populations of people were screened for multiple cancers using a blood test, not only … Should blood tests to screen for cancer be used on a population basis? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

For some types of cancer obesity is clearly a risk factor. Now a new study shows … How do GLP-1 agonists compare against other strategies for weight reduction and cancer risk reduction? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

GLP-1 agonists are a class of drugs originally developed to treat diabetes but have been shown … How are one class of diabetes drugs related to cancer risk? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

Keeping mosquitoes away may be more important than ever as malaria returns to the continental US … Can anything be done to ward off mosquitoes? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

Mosquitoes seem to practice discernment when they choose which human they’ll bite. Christopher Potter, a mosquito … Do mosquitoes have preferences when it comes to who they bite? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

Mosquitoes looking to feed utilize many qualities of humans to find their prey. Exhaled carbon dioxide, … It’s the touch that finally does it when a mosquito is looking to feed, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

You may not think of yourself as especially odorous but your very breath combines with scents … Body odors work in concert with carbon dioxide to tip mosquitoes off to our presence, Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →

Mosquitoes, relative in size to people, are tiny. How is it that they can locate us … What’s the first clue to a mosquito that there’s a human around? Elizabeth Tracey reports Read more →