08/27/13
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COMBFIRST! Giving Children a Voice and Parents a Choice on Head Lice
National Pediculosis Association Sponsors the 28th Annual Head Lice Prevention Campaign. |
09/05/12
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CombFirst! 2012-2013 The National Pediculosis Association (NPA) Kicks Off "National Head Lice Prevention Month”
Preparedness at the beginning of the school year empowers families, and diffuses the anxiety that can accompany this important public health issue. |
10/18/11
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National Pediculosis Association Occupies Times Square on CBS Super Screen!
When it comes to protecting children from pesticides and other potentially harmful treatments for head lice, the National Pediculosis Association (NPA) says nothing compares to the kindness of a comb. |
07/22/11
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CombFirst!
A Call to Action for September's 2011 National Head Lice Prevention Month |
07/27/10
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National Pediculosis Association Says CombFirst! 2010-2011
Back-to-school head lice prevention campaign |
09/02/09
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September is National Head Lice Prevention Month
The National Pediculosis Association sponsors National Head Lice Prevention each September to raise the awareness and decrease the stress of head lice as children return back to school. |
08/11/09
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"Precaution, Preparedness and Peace of Mind"
NPA?s National Head Lice Prevention Month 2009 |
09/04/08
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National Pediculosis Association Marks 25 Years of Advocating Important Message: 'It's Not About Lice, It's About Kids |
| 01/04/07 |
Chemical Remedies Threaten Children with Head Lice, According to the National Pediculosis Association |
| 08/27/06 |
September Is National Head Lice Prevention Month! |
| 08/10/06 |
ABC broadcast on mysterious diseases included descriptions of people believing they had bugs in their skin. |
| 05/02/06 |
Headlice Win Again!
Los Angeles County School District SaysYes to Lice Eggs (Nits) |
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09/01/05 |
NPA Sponsors 21st Annual Back-to-School Head
Lice Prevention Campaign: The All Out Comb Out |
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08/19/05 |
Tiny Bugs Wreak Havoc; Report
of Collembola as Human Parasites Supports Recent Research Findings
A 1955 report to the medical literature, apparently overlooked or
ignored, sheds new light on the National Pediculosis Association's
efforts to alert the medical community and health officials to the
ability of Collembola to infest humans. |
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05/19/05 |
An Emerging Health Crisis -- Where's Dr. House When You Need
Him?
The National Pediculosis Association (NPA) is contacted by individuals
describing the torment and horror of oozing skin lesions, sensations of bugs
biting and crawling under their skin and doctors who diagnose it as nothing more
than a delusion. |
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02/01/05 |
It?s 2005! Why
Are We Still Shampooing Children With Pesticides?
Shampooing with
pesticides has the potential to damage children in the same manner
as these chemicals are designed to damage pests, but
pharmaceutical companies invest millions of dollars to convince
consumers and health professionals that this is what they should
do. |
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10/13/04 |
Boss Louse? Goes
to School!
Revising
guidelines to allow children to attend school with an infestation
of head lice means more children will now be in school with
actively infested classmates, increasing the risk that they too
will become infested. |
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08/27/04 |
NPA Sponsors
20th Annual Back-to-School Head Lice Prevention Campaign
Watch Out for
Boss Louse! Kids aren't the only ones heading back to school
this fall. Boss Louse and his Head Lice Gang are sure to be making
an appearance. |
|
07/12/04 |
Collembola found in scrapings from individuals diagnosed with
delusory parasitosis
New clinical study published in the Journal
of the New York Entomological Society. |
|
04/13/04 |
The National Pediculosis Association Says
"Keep Your Wits Not Your Nits"?
Those who support a no nit policy see it
as a pro-active approach to protect children from unnecessary
exposure to head lice and potentially harmful head lice
treatments. |
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02/09/04 |
New York Follows California to Ban
Prescription Pesticide Lindane for Lice & Scabies
Assemblyman Harvey Weisenberg introduces
bill that would prohibit any lice or scabies treatment product
from containing the pesticide Lindane. |
|
10/01/03 |
Lice Sprays
for Children's Bedding... an Unnecessary Evil
Lice sprays are an easily avoided,
unnecessary risk to family health and safety |
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09/08/03 |
Parents Say No to the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
American Journal of Nursing reports
confusion among health professionals, while parents refuse to
accept American Academy of Pediatrics guidelines that allow
children in school with lice and nits. |
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05/01/03 |
Ohio School Nurse
Challenges Guidelines For Resistant Lice
Treatment recommendations not
necessarily based on scientific and medical evidence |
|
04/01/03 |
When Chemical Warfare
Against Lice Becomes Chemical Warfare Against Kids
The National Pediculosis Association says FDA's latest warnings
fail to protect the public from Lindane |
|
02/03/03 |
Parents Unite and Say "Give us Back Our No
Nit Policy!"
Communities are mobilizing against
guidelines to allow children in school with lice and nits |
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01/03/03 |
Did Your Family Have
a Lousy Holiday Vacation?
Sometimes parents get more than they bargained for when they
travel over the holidays |
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07/16/02 |
Non-profit
Offers Alternative to Protect Children from Pesticides
Reaching out to families with
"Jesse's Project" and a non-chemical choice for head lice |
|
11/01/01 |
The NPA's efforts
to eliminate lindane get a huge boost
The goal is not just to
eliminate Lindane, but also to ensure it is not replaced with yet
another poison |
|
10/04/01 |
EPA to Assess The
Risks of Lindane EPA Docket Control #0PP-34239
We Can't Wait Another 15 Years! |
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09/06/01 |
We Are Bigger Than Head Lice
Debate Favors "No Nit Policy" |
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04/19/01 |
NPA's LiceMeister Comb Makes Prime Time on CSI!
20 million viewers get a lesson on lice |
|
03/13/00 |
Medical
Device Keeps Lice Out of Everyone's Hair
The chemical approach to head lice has failed |
|
08/04/99 |
Thorough
Combing Emerging as Treatment of Choice
Resistance and toxicity are non-issues with mechanical removal |
