
Lice Outbreak Leads to Business Opportunity
When all five members of the family of Kim Pickens of Scottsdale, Arizona, contracted head lice in 2009, she was shocked to find how difficult it was to get lice out of her household. “It was a nightmare,” she recalls. “After a month of self-treatment and repeated failures we called a nitpicker to come to

Lice Clinic Owner Turns from Lice Victim to Lice Fighter
For Lice Clinic of America owner Marlene Weiss (super lice fighter), the battle against head lice is both personal and professional. “In January 2015, myself and all three of our children were infested at the same time,” she recalls. “I spent over three weeks trying to get rid of the infestation with over-the-counter shampoos that

Consumer Reports Challenges Pesticide Lice Treatments
Over-the-counter (OTC) lice treatments are now widely considered ineffective against head lice. The most recent research, published in the Journal of Medical Entomology, found that head lice in 42 states are 100 percent resistant to OTC lice treatment products. The watchdogs at Consumer Reports have questioned (1) why these products, marketed under brand names

Super Lice have you worried? Don’t be.
You may have heard the reports about so-called super lice. Researchers have found that most head lice are now resistant to the pyrethroid family of insecticides used in drugstore lice products. The most recent study, published in March 2016 by the Journal of Medical Entomology, found pyrethroid-resistant lice in 42 of the 48 states tested
