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 ...

Just the thought is enough to make any parent's skin crawl. As many as 12 million school-aged children come down with a head-scratching case of lice each year. Gina Jones, an Akron, Ohio, mother of ...

Some parents are scratching their heads over less restrictive head lice policies that allow children with live bugs in their hair to return to the classroom. And some school nurses are no longer ...

The CDC estimates six to 12 million head lice cases occur each year in children ages three to 11, but doctors say the stigma ...

The treatment, and perception, of head lice may be changing as students return to classrooms amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Long the bane of parents and school health providers, head lice has typically ...

Lots of kids will get lice at least once while they’re in school. Removing the insects and their eggs (called nits) from your child’s hair is a painstaking process — even if they aren’t squirming or ...

MISSOURI, USA — The school year is going six weeks strong, but as teachers share knowledge with their students, some classrooms may see kids sharing something else: head lice. There are around six to ...