Engraved into the side of a nearly 4,000-year-old ivory comb is a simple wish: Get these lice out of my hair. This faint inscription, written in the early language of the ancient Canaanites, ...

Israeli archaeologists have found an ancient comb containing possibly the oldest known sentence in the Canaanite alphabet, a language that spawned modern language systems, such as Arabic and Hebrew.

While head lice are statistically less common in Black children across the United States, assuming they are completely immune ...

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 ...

An engraving on an ancient lice comb might be the oldest known sentence written in the first alphabet. The doubled-edged ivory comb, which was excavated in Israel, bears an engraved inscription ...

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 ...

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September is National Head Lice Prevention Month, coinciding with a time of year when infestations tend to surge.