Combing lice and nits out of wet hair, with or without conditioner, is effective, but can take hours and needs to be repeated several times. Diane Jones gives Teddy, 10, a head lice treatment at Hair ...

They're tiny. They're itchy. They're extremely difficult to physically eliminate and even harder to mentally bear. They're lice. And when your child happens to be the temporary home for these ...

As resistance to traditional insecticides grows in head lice, some researchers are abandoning poison shampoos and taking a different approach. Their goal is a physical, mechanical way of killing the ...

Any evidence of lice was once reason for immediate dismissal from school, with no return until the student's head was lice free. But "no-nit" policies have been dropped in favor of "nonexclusion" ...

FARGO - Head lice can happen to anyone, but parents react much differently when they find out their child has a case of the critters than they do when their son or daughter comes home with the ...

Any evidence of lice was once a reason for immediate dismissal from school, not to return until the student’s head was lice-free. But what are known as “no-nit” policies have been dropped in favor of ...

Evelyn Thompson of Lice Is Simple, a treatment company in Nashville, Tenn., checks the head of a student at a preschool that experienced an outbreak affecting at least 13 children over the summer.

Any evidence of lice was once a reason for immediate dismissal from school, not to return until the student's head was lice-free. But what are known as "no-nit" policies have been dropped in favor of ...