Hers reports on harmful hair care ingredients. Avoid sulfates, parabens, silicones, and certain oils for healthier hair.

This is a true story. It’s in a file at the Boney Courthouse in Anchorage. On May 2, 2025, the Alaska Supreme Court issued a ...

Courts are supposed to check abuses of power — not enable them. In a case involving an Alaska woman, they did neither.

Cold sore-causing HSV-1 doesn't just hijack cells it reconfigures the entire architecture of our DNA to aid its invasion.

Medically reviewed by Susan Bard, MD An itchy scalp can develop due to a variety of causes, including your hair-washing routine, head lice, psoriasis, and more. How to find relief depends on the cause ...

Schoolchildren are commonly affected by head lice, which attach to hair and feed on human blood. Although head lice are a year-round problem, the number of cases usually peaks during back-to ...

Head lice can cause localized infection if excessive scratching introduces bacteria into an open wound, but the bugs themselves don’t spread disease or carry human pathogens, the CDPH says.

The email arrives on a Friday afternoon. The subject line is a three-word horror story: Lice at camp. “No,” I say, out loud, even though I am alone. I immediately flash back to last year, when ...

Lice have been so intrinsically linked to humans, evolving alongside us for over 25 million years, that their genetic data is providing clues to our genetic history.

They have evolved — and traveled — with humans to continually survive and find new hosts. Now, a new study suggests lice DNA can help track human migration from continent to continent.