Deborah Z. Altschuler is the president of the National Pediculosis Association, an all-volunteer nonprofit organization, which sells a comb designed to remove lice. Updated October 27, 2015, 11:21 AM ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – As your kids settle back into their classroom routines, you need to be checking more than the schoolwork and teachers' notes they're bringing home. They may also be bringing home ...

Dear Parent or Guardian: Your child was found today to have nits and head lice. For generations, a notice like this meant a child was immediately removed from the classroom and banned from school ...

Say the words “super lice” and you might cause nightmares for parents who have experience ridding children’s heads of the tiny critters that like to establish veritable cities on our scalps. But ...

ASHLEY PEACE sighs with dismay as she runs a nit comb through her daughters’ hair for the 12th day in a row. Her two girls, aged nine and 11, caught the lice at school and, despite her spending £40 on ...

Ten years ago, Camille Merian of Close Nit Family received a call from the school nurse at her children’s elementary school telling her they had lice. Little did she know that a new career and a ...

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 ...

Lice. The very word might send a little tickle to the base of your neck. Lice. Lice. Lice. See what I mean? Makes you want to scratch all over, right? One Wilmington woman isn't a bit scared of the ...

Head lice are parasitic wingless insects that feed on human blood and are commonly found in the hair and on the scalp. They’re very common and spread either by head-to-head contact or by sharing hats, ...

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 ...