Between 6 and 12 million children ages 3 through 11 get head lice every year in the U.S., according to an estimate from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. That’s a lot of itching. If ...

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 ...

Head lice: No one wants them, and no one wants to admit they have them. They are, er, lousy. There are a lot of misconceptions about lice, so let's work through 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 ...

She left without buying anything. I told the pharmacist that my daughter may have been exposed to lice ... says the Mountville mother of two. The pharmacist told me that I shouldn t treat her unless ...

Many common over-the-counter lice remedies are no longer effective at stopping these critters from taking up residence on kids' heads, according to a study that has some doctors recommending ...

Head lice are not dangerous but are extremely irritating for everyone concerned. Lice are attracted to clean hair and spread quickly from one head to another. Young children are particularly prone as ...

Many of us have been here: A "my head is itchy" comment from the grade schooler. A sighting of little bugs scrambling on your child's head in the bath. The note home from school. These critters are ...

Back in the '80s, I was part of a generation of schoolchildren who lined up in front of the nurse's office to have our little noggins checked for lice. The nurses used elongated toothpicks to part our ...

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 ...