Health experts at the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) say children don't have to be sent home from school if they have head lice. The Illinois-based association of pediatricians issued a clinical ...

HOUSTON — Students with head lice don't have to be sent home from school, according to guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The guidance says for students to be sent home at ...

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"Head lice is not considered a communicable disease, because lice do not carry disease," said the Director of Community Wellness, in Kent County, Mich. The discovery of head lice on a child's body no ...

For generations, children with signs of head lice were summarily sent home by the school nurse to their everlasting shame. Now schools have become less nitpicky. With the backing of some major health ...

Picture this, it’s 1998 and you’re called to the principal’s office. Not because you flung paper clips at the substitute teacher again, but because your deskmate who has been missing since this ...

Head lice affect millions of children every year. Schoolchildren are commonly affected by head lice, which attach to hair and feed on human blood. Although head lice are a year-round problem, the ...

While head lice outbreaks tend to be pretty localized within schools or districts (unlike, say, the flu and norovirus cases that are surging nationwide), we’re seeing lots of lice chatter bubbling up ...

Anecdotal reports about a global rise in head lice cases have prompted warnings from some experts about a popular and universal activity among children and teenagers: taking selfies. Head lice, itchy ...