The Vances welcomed their fourth child, a baby boy, on July 19 at Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Maryland.

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 ...

Humanity's itchy little nuisance resists common pesticides and drives parents crazy. Will we ever be rid of head lice? Doctors say it's unlikely. Nothing may inspire more panic than getting that ...

The human-head louse has a ghostly quality. It tends to glimmer in and out of view, leaving only subtle signs and omens of its presence. Is that oblong speck an egg sac or a flake of dandruff? Was ...

Yes, it’s possible for newborn babies to get head lice, though it’s generally more common in school-age children. If a newborn has contact with someone who has head lice, however, the lice can spread ...

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: ...

The boy mom of two tells PEOPLE she's "slowly getting used to" all the attention that comes with her 5-month-old's luscious hair Yanez shares that it's "hard to style" her son's hair Liliana Yanez's ...

is your neighborhood reporter San Patricio and Aransas County. CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas — Lice Angels, one of the few lice treatment clinics in the Coastal Bend has noticed a surge in head lice cases.

A flight passenger came out in defense of a controversial travel trend, sparking an etiquette debate among flyers. The trend of "gate lice" was widely reported last year when American Airlines began ...

From In the Matter of the Necessity for the Hospitalization of Lila B., decided Friday by the Alaska Supreme Court (in an opinion by Chief Justice Maassen): A woman with a severe head-lice infestation ...

Wrangling head lice, and the children they infest, must be up there with the most challenging duties a parent or carer has to face. And the job is getting harder. Commonly used chemical products ...