Although people of all ages can have lice or dandruff, they primarily affect different age groups. Head lice are most common in children 3-11 years old. Children often play together in close ...

Cameron Webb and the Department of Medical Entomology, NSW Health Pathology and University of Sydney, have been engaged by a wide range of insect repellent and insecticide manufacturers to provide ...

African Americans are less likely than others to get head lice but definitely aren’t immune. Clearing up the myth is the first step toward prevention and treatment. By Brian Vines When I was in ...

Children worldwide are commonly infected with head lice, or pediculosis capitis. The epidemiology, etiology, clinical manifestations, diagnosis, and preventive and treatment modalities for ...

Most subjects were female (86.9%), with a median age of 10 years. On day 15 in the intention-to-treat analysis, 378 (95.2%) of 397 patients were free of head lice in the ivermectin group ...