Get Lice Outbreak Alerts on Your iPhone PDF Print E-mail
Written by Techlicious.com   
Wednesday, August 17 2011

Just hearing the word “lice” makes my head itch. So you can imagine my dismay the first time I got an alert from my daughter’s preschool that a child in her class had lice. In the years since, lice notices and the requisite head checks have become a fact of life once school starts. It makes me wonder how many times my kids are...

 
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Lice outbreak? There’s an app for that! PDF Print E-mail
Written by BostonHerald.com   
Tuesday, August 16 2011

Just in time for the new school year, the New Jersey company Fairy Tales Hair Care is rolling out its new “Facts of Lice” iPhone app. It promises to provide real time alerts of lice outbreaks at a very local level. Here’s the press release… Did you know that the majority of the 12 million head lice cases seen annually occur in preschool and elementary...

 
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Sleep-Tite is a solution to our bedbug problem PDF Print E-mail
Written by Perly Viasmensky   
Wednesday, December 01 2010

On October 13, 2010, I wrote an article in which I made it very clear that much of the United States is under a chronic cloak of paranoia caused by the invasion of bedbugs. According to entomologists, bedbugs are making a comeback because international travelers and pesticides are not as potent as they were in the past.

 
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Rising from Ashes: 3 Women SBOs Share Success Stories PDF Print E-mail
Written by American Express   
Tuesday, November 16 2010

Behind every successful business is an entrepreneur with a great story. Many are women. Here, we profile four female business owners who’ve beat seemingly insurmountable odds and come out on top. Risa Barash, growing up in Wayne, N.J., Risa Barash (pictured right) had a specific life goal. “I wanted to have my own sitcom and get married to Brad Pitt,”

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Back to school natural hair products to help prevent lice PDF Print E-mail
Written by Early Childhood Parenting Examiner   
Sunday, August 15 2010

According to the American Academy of Pediatrics, there is an estimated 12 million cases of head lice in children each year. Kindergartener cases are the most prevalent, as they engage in more direct head to head contact.
Also, an estimated 80% of all elementary schools have at least one
outbreak a year!

 
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