WASHINGTON (AP) -- The cars, some from as far as Georgia, pull up to the stately brick home tucked into an affluent Washington suburb. Some of the people who emerge are tearful, others are panicked.

A lice comb can help you detect lice and remove both the lice and their nits (eggs). When you find lice, prompt treatment is key to removing them and preventing them from spreading to others. While it ...

Head lice have upped their game — recent research confirms that many of them have become resistant to most of the potions we use to kill them. Sometimes just talking about lice makes people’s heads ...

Children have returned to school and are bringing home stories about the things they learned and the friends they made. But some parents are concerned they could also be bringing home a tiny nuisance ...

Bad news for parents of school-aged children, those run-of-the-mill lice from the ’80s and ’90s have upped their game. While the newly mutated “super lice” have most parents shaking in their boots, ...

Head lice are not known to spread disease. Head lice thrive in a school setting where children are in closer proximity An estimated 6-12 million head lice infestations occur each year in children ages ...

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 ...