With the return to school, lots of you may be hearing people talking about head lice and nits, but what do we actually know about them?

A sesame seed-size parasite that feeds on human blood, the head louse (Pediculus humanus capitis) is a nuisance known around the world. These tiny insects infest human hair and can also sometimes be ...

School supplies, backpack, lunch, check. Lice prevention and treatment -- check? Kids can get head lice anytime and anywhere, but schools are a particularly fertile breeding ground. "I'm sure we're ...

Following is a transcript of the video. You might not have known this, but ancient Egypt was an itchy place to live. Lice were rampant. Cleopatra, for example, was buried with solid gold lice combs, ...

My head started to itch the moment I read "Head lice" in the subject line of an e-mail from my children's preschool. I vividly remember the "special shampoo" my mother used on my hair once as a kid.

A few months ago, just before the end of first grade, Sara’s daughter mentioned that one of her friends had been sent home from school with head lice. Luckily, when officials at the charter school ...

GREENSBORO, N.C. — It's not uncommon for cases of head lice to pop up early in the school year, but it's almost November and lice treatment experts say they're getting more calls than normal in ...

The school health clerk took a comb and pointed to the near-microscopic bugs crawling up and down my daughters’ scalps. I cringed. Then she checked my head for the pesky parasites. I held my breath.

We’re just days away from the start of school, and as thousands of students reconvene, it’s a prime time for the spread of head lice. A new study says super lice, or bugs resistant to the typical over ...

Sending children with head lice home from school doesn't "have sound medical rationale," Canada's pediatricians say, but a few school boards in major cities haven't updated their exclusion policies.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Dinosaurs might have been the first animals tormented by the kinds of lice that now often bedevil ...

When LaToya Wright Willis decided to start her own business last April, she landed upon a recession-proof consumer need: lice-busting. "People said to me, 'No one starts a business during a recession, ...