As parents, teachers and children start getting ready for term one, families will be on the lookout for itchy scalps caused ...

SpyNits founder Kate Rickett says she's heard of parents resorting to drastic measures to get rid of nits, including kerosene, fly spray and flea treatment.

“Aisle lice”, the new travel term for those who quickly unbuckle and queue down the cabin in a bid to deplane first, tend to ...

Lice are tiny wingless insects that feed on human blood from the scalp. From wet combing to petroleum jelly, check out the ...

There’s never a good time to get the dreaded lice memo from your kids’ school, but if we had to choose one of the worst times ...

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 ...

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

Often unexperienced flyers, gate lice, attempt to queue up the minute their gate opens. These people might try to board in front of First or Business Class passengers, or those who are in an ...

Travis Head's celebration of Rishabh Pant's wicket in Melbourne did not go down well with former India cricketer Navjot Singh Sidhu, who called it “obnoxious”. Travis Head didn't trouble the ...

Andriy Onufriyenko via Getty Images The human brain is a biological marvel, stuffed with some 86 billion neurons tangling in ways that even scientists have not yet been able to fully map and ...

If we turn back the clock to when Homo sapiens is believed to have evolved – around 300,000 years ago – we will find that there were a lot of other human species around. I wish I could give ...

"Gate lice" refers to passengers who cut lines in the hope of boarding a flight early. American Airlines announced it is expanding its new technology to counter "gate lice" at over 100 airports.