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 ...

You think your job’s lousy? A 21-year-old woman is going viral on TikTok after admitting her full-time job is killing scalp-loving critters. Rachel Maroun, from Sydney, Australia, revealed to her ...

Marianne had a phone call she would never forget. Her daughter’s preschool called and asked her to pick up her child because she had lice. As someone who had never dealt with lice growing up and whose ...

Dec. 05, 2005 — -- For parents desperate to find a quick solution to head lice, a letter to the editor in the December issue of the journal Pediatrics offers hope. The letter, from California ...

A lice-removal professional claims selfies are contributing to an increase in the spread of head lice among young people, but for now at least, the link is by no means conclusive. Michael Franco ...

Recent research found that head lice have mutated genetically to become resistant to most over-the-counter treatments. This is likely a result of overuse, because the same treatments having been ...

One of those annoyances comes in the form of head lice — itchy, bothersome, parasitic insects that live solely on the scalp hair of humans and usually on children 10 and younger. As do all insects, ...

Students with head lice should be allowed to go to school, a new report says. They shouldn’t be kept from the classroom, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics. Instead, families should ...

There is no need to send kids with head lice home from school, according to new guidance from the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). In the United States, head lice are most common among preschool ...

No one wants to talk about head lice. Even though, for those under 12, head lice is now more common than all other communicable diseases (other than the common cold) put together. Yet there's still a ...

Head lice have long been a source of distress for parents. And with recent news of burgeoning resistance to over-the-counter treatments, those worries are escalating. “Please help!!!” read one recent ...

It's almost time for books, backpacks, homework – and head lice? As younger students in pre-K, kindergarten and elementary school return to tight quarters with increased head-to-head contact, experts ...