Sydney Spiesel

Dr. Sydney Z. Spiesel is a pediatrician on the clinical faculty of the Yale University School of Medicine. [citation|last=Trillin|first=Calvin|chapter=Lice Styles Of The Rich And Famous|title=TIME Magazine|publisher=time.com|date=July 17, 2000|chapter-url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,997475,00.html.]

Spiesel is the inventor (patent|US|5997847) of a shampoo that makes lice eggs (nits) fluoresce under ultraviolet light, so making them more visible. [citation|last=Kelliher|first=Jeff|chapter=You Light Up My Lice|chapter-url=http://www.headlice.org/news/2000/iwon.htm
title=HealthNews|publisher=headlice.org.] [citation|last=Riordan|first=Teresa|chapter=Patents; Inventors work on laser hair removal, hair cleaning, hair mascara and hair drying|date=April 24, 2000|title=New York Times Business|publisher=nytimes.com|chapter-url=http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C00EFDC1430F937A15757C0A9669C8B63.]

Spiesel is a regular commentator for Slate magazine [ [http://www.slatetv.com/default.aspx?submit.x=0&submit.y=0&id=3944&qt=%22Sydney+Spiesel%22 Slate articles by Sydney Spiesel] ] and National Public Radio. [ [http://www.npr.org/search.php?text=%22Sydney+Spiesel%22 Sydney Spiesel on NPR] ]

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