If you’ve noticed a bug on your clothes, in your hair, in your kid’s hair, or on your pet, there’s no need to panic, as it might not be a louse. Many insects have a lice-like appearance and are often ...

Yesterday, the Voice reported on something both terrifying and gross: drug resistant head lice. Turns out, some strains of these bugs have gotten so used to common treatments over the years that their ...

We hate to ruin Bloomberg News' squirm-inducing report of the day, but there's no solid evidence that the increasing popularity of the bikini wax is, in fact, actually leading to the elimination of ...

In 2013, some preachers of biodiversity shocked the world with calls for to save pubic lice from extinction. Writing in Bloomberg, Jason Gale and Shannon Pettypiece suggested that measures ought to be ...

There are two species of lice that infest humans: pubic lice, Pthirus pubis, and human head and body lice, Pediculus humanus. A new article in BioMed Central's open access Journal of Biology suggests ...

Here’s an eyebrow-raising sight. This month, doctors in China reported on a rare case of phthiriasis palpebrarum, or an infestation of pubic lice on the eyelashes, complete with clear images of the ...

CAMPUS PROWLER: A wildlife tour guide living at the Sedé Boqér campus of Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, in Israel, had a middle-of-the-night wrestling match with a leopard when he awoke last ...

In January 2013, some preachers of biodiversity shocked the world with calls for to save pubic lice from extinction. Writing in Bloomberg, Jason Gale and Shannon Pettypiece suggested that measures ...