With the return to school, you may be hearing people talking about head lice and nits. Lice are tiny insects that live on people's heads, and nits are the eggs they hatch from, found close to the ...

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 ...

A worrying 98% of nits in America are now resistant to the over-the-counter head lice treatments, according to new evidence. The boom of the “super nit” in the USA is becoming an increasing concern ...

September is Head Lice Prevention Month-an excellent time to educate parents, children and the community about head lice. Accurate information including accurate detection can help prevent as well as ...

The back-to-school season, as exciting and relieving as it can be for parents, also means the start of the dreaded lice infestations. It's estimated that around 12 million cases of head lice ...

The first line of defense might be some good, old-fashioned boundary lessons. "Lice spread through head-to-head contact, so without physical boundaries, lice can easily crawl from one child to another ...

Parents are being warned there could be a big rise in head lice outbreaks in schools this winter. The health charity Community Hygiene Concern has predicted that low-income families will be hit ...

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For the first time, scientists have recovered ancient human DNA from the sticky glue head lice use to attach their eggs to their host's hair. The new technique was trialled on mummified remains and ...