Writing about public health issues carries weighty responsibility - especially when advice enjoys the credibility of a professional organization and its good name. But regardless of where it comes from, news should never represent opinions as fact. This is an ever present challenge for writing articles about pediculosis.  As recently as yesterday,  USA Today quotes the current president of the National Association of School Nurses with comments that we believe to be false and

It’s encouraging and enormously important to see independent researchers currently looking at the issues of body lice and head lice again, motivated by both healthy curiosity and scientific interest.   There was a long stretch of time during which most of the information available on the subject of human lice was generated by conflicted experts hired to promote pesticidal treatments which in turn were vigorously marketed by the pharmaceutical industry. Looking back at the lit