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Four words that parents dread: "Your child has lice."
If you've waged the war, you know the horrors: harsh hair-dousing with insecticide shampoos, shriek-inducing combings, plus vigilant laundering of everything. And if one child gets them, there's a good chance siblings, friends and even parents will too.
To the rescue: the LouseBuster, codeveloped by Dale Clayton, PhD, a University of Utah biologist. Resembling a canister vacuum with a comb at the end, it exposes hair roots as it works, shooting warm air that seems to dry out lice. (No, a hair dryer won't do the job.) The FDA still must clear the device, which will likely be used in schools and clinics. That could be by 2009 -- good news for the 6 million to 12 million infested yearly.
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