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SAN FRANCISCO, June 18, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The California Poison Control System (CPCS), the largest single provider of poison control services in the country, today launched a ground breaking bilingual digital health project, the Pesticide Safety Project. For the first time, this program puts teaching tools in the hands of farm workers and community health professionals where they need them most--on their mobile devices. Safety information is provided through...

Mosquitoes can put a damper on the summer time, but Horne’s Pest Control Company offers information and advice for dealing with the biting pest. Martinez, GA (PRWEB) May 21, 2013 Mosquitoes are always an issue in the summer months, and in some ways seem to be getting worse. Some entomologists believe, that as a result of global warming, diseases carried by insects will continue to increase. It is believed that since the beginning of time - mosquitoes are responsible for more human...

Along with springtime comes a rise in head lice cases. Nitsend head lice treatment salon serving New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Vermont and Maine is offering a 20% discount for the month of June. Plaistow, New Hampshire (PRWEB) May 21, 2013 For parents who are at their “wit's end” with head lice, there is now a solution: Nitsend in Plaistow, New Hampshire, on the Massachusetts border. Families in New England now have a place for safe, effective head lice removal, without chemicals...

NEW survey reveals nearly 9 of 10 Americans would choose natural mosquito repellent solutions if proven just as effective as repellents that contain chemicals DALLAS, May 1, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- This summer it's easier than ever to "beat the bite" of the menacing mosquito with two new, all-natural solutions by Universal Pest Solutions - the portable Terminix® ALLCLEAR® TableTop Mosquito Repeller and the personal, clipable Terminix ALLCLEAR SideKick Mosquito Repeller. (Photo:...

Lice Tamers lice treatment service recently added a new FDA-Cleared device to their arsenal of head lice treatments - the LouseBuster™ device. Now, one single 30-minute LouseBuster™ treatment is all that is needed to kill head lice and eggs. Huntington, NY (PRWEB) December 08, 2012 Melissa Levin, a nurse practitioner and owner of Long Island's Lice Tamers, is bringing a new FDA-Cleared device to her head lice treatment center—The LouseBuster™ Levin, and her trained staff...

WEST PALM BEACH, Fla., Oct. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Looking for a business with enormous upside potential, where customers seek you out and gladly pay your fee? Consider becoming a nit picker. Doing what you ask? Picking...well...nits. Getting rid of nits (lice eggs) and their spawn is a fast-growing business these days, according to Katie Shepherd, founder of Lice Solutions in West Palm Beach, Florida. She noted that in the past two years the number of lice removal companies...

Press release from PLoS MedicineCurrent WHO pesticide classifications are based on toxicity in rats but basing regulation on human toxicity will make pesticide poisoning less hazardous and prevent hundreds of thousands of deaths globally without compromising agricultural needs. These are the key findings from a study by Andrew Dawson (South Asian Clinical Toxicology Research Collaboration, University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka) and colleagues published in this week's PLoS Medicine.The single...

Additional restrictions on three pesticides will help protect salmon in four western states, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said Friday. Changes in the use of three organophosphate pesticides -- chlorpyrifos, diazinon and malathion -- should keep water cleaner in California, Idaho, Oregon and Washington, EPA officials said in a release. The changes, to be noted on product labels, include the addition of pesticide buffer zones and application limits based on wind speed, soil...

A U.S. study suggests the common insecticide malathion can decimate tadpole populations, killing them indirectly at doses too small to kill them directly. University of Pittsburgh researchers wanted to determine the environmental impact of the use of malathion -- the most popular insecticide in the United States. The scientists discovered gradual amounts of malathion that were too small to directly kill developing leopard frog tadpoles instead sparked a biological chain of events that...

Insecticide malathion initiates chain reaction that deprives tadpoles of food source, indirectly killing them at doses too small to kill them directlyThe latest findings of a University of Pittsburgh-based project to determine the environmental impact of routine pesticide use suggests that malathion"”the most popular insecticide in the United States"”can decimate tadpole populations by altering their food chain, according to research published in the Oct. 1 edition of Ecological...