Head lice is one of the top reasons children miss school, yet there's no single, foolproof remedy. One of the most time-honored approaches is nitpicking. This involves picking lice eggs, known as nits ...

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 ...

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 ...

MERCER ISLAND, Wash. - Nancy Gordon has managed to turn nit-picking into a full-time job. "If you have a great attitude about it, it can be really fun," she said. The one-time lawyer and full-time mom ...

COLUMBUS, Ohio (WCMH) — As students head back to school, many parents might not be aware of the latest lice policies issued by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The CDC has recently ...

HOUSTON — Students with head lice don't have to be sent home from school, according to guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The guidance says for students to be sent home at ...

Why launch a new consumer health company with a lice removal product, of all things? When Cartwheel Founder-CEO Joanna Shu’s own kids got head lice, and she went shopping for treatments, “the options ...

"Head lice is not considered a communicable disease, because lice do not carry disease," said the Director of Community Wellness, in Kent County, Mich. Getty The discovery of head lice on a child's ...