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 ...

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 ...

ZANESVILLE - There was a time when health departments across the nation were diligent about controlling the population of head lice. Health care workers would routinely visit schools and do head ...

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 ...

LOWELL -- Winter. The season for hats, scarves and hugging and taking photos with friends and family also beckons head lice. The six-legged insects use the close contact to climb from one head to ...

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 ...

A bit of bad news for parents: Head lice are here to stay. Our colleague, Joe Rojas-Burke, reports on this creepy critter who'll make itself at home in the heads of millions of schoolchildren this ...

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 ...

Kids might not be socialising in classrooms right now, but that doesn’t mean head lice aren’t doing the rounds. If just reading that sentence has made you itchy, you’re not alone. And it turns out ...

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 ...