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	The Human Louse and Disease Recent studies support the critical need for preparedness and lice prevention.
Dec 10	Human Pediculosis and Anaemia: A "Lousy" Association Anaemia due to head lice is unlikely, in an otherwise healthy child. However untreated, prolonged and severe infestation might lead to anaemia in the long term. -- Source: Pediatric Research
Nov 17	Head Lice Prevention Campaign Lasts all Year Long! A CombFirst reminder for Back to School after Thanksgiving holiday. -- Source: National Pediculosis Association®
Oct 26	Children are guinea pigs in uncontrolled experiment Of the 84,000 chemicals on the market today -- many of which are in objects that people come into contact with every day -- only about 1 percent of them have been studied for safety. -- Source: CNN News
Oct 7	Protecting Children's Health: The National Pesticide Program New EPA Publication -- Source: The United States Environmental Protection Agency
Sep 14	Supposedly Safe Pesticides Now First in Poisonings -- Source: The Center for Public Integrity
July 27	National Pediculosis Association Says CombFirst! 2010-2011 Back-to-school head lice prevention campaign -- Source: National Pediculosis Association®
July 26	WSJ Writer Talks from Experience A video of her sharing information -- Source: Wall Street Journal
June 28	The National Science Foundation's Project on Lice What lice reveal about the history of human migration, a new nonchemical invention for families, and high res images -- Source: nsf.gov
May 25	New informative video on pediculosis Shows Lice Assassins combing for lice and nits! -- Source: brightcove.com
May 19	US Pharmacist New Approaches May Help Overcome Pediculicide Resistance -- Source: USPharmacist.com
May 19	Malathion Risks See what US government says -- Source: MedlinePlus (U.S. National Library of Medicine and National Institutes of Health) - www.nlm.nih.gov
May 18	Indirect Transmission of Head Lice Via Inanimate Objects "Whether people can become infected by head lice transferring from inanimate objects is a topic of controversy. This paper reviews the evidence available from experimental studies in controlled laboratory experiments and data from field studies. The weight of evidence appears to be against transmission from inanimate objects being significant, and the promotion of inanimate objects that play an epidemiologically important role in head lice dispersal is not supported by evidence." -- Source: The Open Dermatology Journal
May 16	Pesticides including malathion Study reports increased risk of ADHD -- Source: Los Angeles Times - latimes.com
May 11	FDA Initiates Bad Ad Reporting Helping FDA make sure prescription advertising and promotion is truthful and not misleading. -- Source: FDA - U.S. Food and Drug Administrations - fda.gov
Apr 21	PSR Supports Newly Introduced Safe Chemicals Act Physicians for Social Responsibility supports the "Safe Chemicals Act of 2010", seeks improvement before enactment. -- Source: Physicians for Social Responsibility
Apr 15	Safe Chemicals Act of 2010 Amending the Toxic Substances Control Act that risks from chemicals are adequately understood and managed, and for other purposes -- Source: THOMAS, The Library of Congress
Mar 30	Body lice originate from head lice Until now, head lice and body lice were thought to be different species. -- Source: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (National Center for Scientific Research, France)
Mar 23	Genotyping of Human Lice Suggests Multiple Emergences of Body Lice from Local Head Louse Populations Genetic analyses of human lice have shown that the current taxonomic classification of head lice (Pediculus humanus capitis) and body lice (Pediculus humanus humanus) does not reflect their phylogenetic organization. -- Authors: Wenjun Li, Gabriel Ortiz, Pierre-Edouard Fournier, Gregory Gimenez, David L. Reed, Barry Pittendrigh, Didier Raoult.
Mar 17	Hearing on the Government Accountability Efforts to Protect Children's Health -- Source: U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works
Mar 17	Testimony, Hearing on the Government Accountability Ted Schettler MD, MPH -- Source: U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works
Mar 17	Testimony, Hearing on the Government Accountability Gina Solomon MD, MPH -- Source: U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works
Feb 22	Endocrine Disruption Prevention Act 2009-2010 Research and Prevention -- Source: GovTrack.us
Feb 4	Senate Hearing on Chemical Exposure Current science on public exposures to toxic chemicals. -- Source: Pacifica Radio