Actress Jenny Mollen said on Instagram that she learned she had head lice while on an airplane, sparking social media users ...

Medically reviewed by Daniel Combs, MD Lice are parasites that survive on your body by living off your blood. Three types of lice impact humans: head lice, body lice, and pubic lice. Head lice, the ...

Head lice infestation is a fairly common problem globally, with 6–12 million cases in children ages 3–11 reported annually in the US alone, [1] and is typically observed in the school-aged ...

Author and wife of actor Jason Biggs, Jenny Mollen, says she thought her itching was caused by “perimenopause symptoms” and ...

Head lice are small, flat, six-leg, blood-sucking, wingless insects about 2–4 mm long that live, reproduce and feed on the human scalp. Head lice have been surviving in humans for millions of ...

Since humans have had hair, we've probably also had lice. The small parasites, which live on human heads, have plagued school classrooms and sleepovers alike for centuries, but a new study shows a ...

Background In the treatment of human head lice infestation, healthcare providers are increasingly concerned about lice becoming resistant to existing pesticide treatments. Traditional pesticides ...

Head lice are small parasites that live on human scalps, feeding on blood. While they don’t cause serious health problems, head lice are a common and frustrating problem, especially among ...

But a team from the universities of Oslo and Ferrara now says the first, the Black Death, can be "largely ascribed to human fleas and body lice". The study, in the Proceedings of the National ...