A purported notice from a school district is going viral after instructing parents to send their kids to school even if they ...

Children have returned to school and are bringing home stories about the things they learned and the friends they made. But some parents are concerned they could also be bringing home a tiny nuisance: ...

Children have returned to school and are bringing home stories about the things they learned and the friends they made. But some parents are concerned they could also be bringing home a tiny nuisance ...

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" ...

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.

As the school term gets underway again cases of head lice surge as children put their heads close to one another. Head lice and nits are very common in young children and their families. A common ...