Medically reviewed by Brendan Camp, MD When your scalp is itchy and white flakes are visible in your hair, you may wonder ...

Glue-Like Substance Produced by Head Lice Holds DNA Evidence, Sheds Light on South American Ancestry Scientists recovered DNA ...

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

Sea lice aren't lice at all ... The trouble comes when these babies get caught between your skin and your bathing suit, or even in your hair. About 4-24 hours later, you start to itch and sting.

When the Soviet army reached Auschwitz 80 years ago, on January 27, 1945, it found only about 7,000 inmates. What they saw ...

In nonlactating dairy cattle, you can use the organophosphates phosmet and chlorpyrifos as well as tetrachlorvinphos, coumaphos and diazinon. The macrocyclic lactones moxidectin, ivermectin, ...

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 ...