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VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — As we gear up for back-to-school, buying school supplies, backpacks, clothes and shoes, there is something else you might consider: head lice prevention. The start of the ...

Lots of kids will get lice at least once while they’re in school. Removing the insects and their eggs (called nits) from your ...

The back-to-school season, as exciting and relieving as it can be for parents, also means the start of the dreaded lice infestations. It's estimated that around 12 million cases of head lice ...

DEAR MARY: I’ve heard that if you regularly blow-dry your hair with an ordinary hair dryer set on high, you’ll never have head lice, because lice and their eggs cannot tolerate heat. Is that true? I ...

ATLANTA — Brand new guidance from the American Academy of Pediatrics says there's no need to keep kids home from school if they have head lice. It's the first time its guidance has been updated since ...

Anecdotal reports about a global rise in head lice cases have prompted warnings from some experts about a popular and universal activity among children and teenagers: taking selfies. Head lice, itchy ...

MATTOON — Gone are the days of sifting through hundreds of little heads looking for tiny little bugs. Instead, Mattoon school district nurses are oriented toward providing suffering families with the ...