A Georgia lawmaker is pushing to allow ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug, to be sold over the counter without a prescription.

In high doses, ivermectin can be toxic and cause central nervous system problems like blurred vision, confusion and seizures, ...

Ivermectin is effective against other parasites, but in a noncontrolled study, a single standard dose eradicated head lice in only 23% of subjects. Examining efficacy and safety, Chosidow and ...

For as long as humans have had lice, we’ve fought hard to get rid of them. Nit combs, the fine-tooth brushes used to remove lice and their sticky eggs, have been found among the anci ...

These parasitic worms live in the blood vessels ... The study also found that 40% of the mummies had head lice, while 22% of ...

The good news is you can easily protect your pet from these parasites with the best flea and tick treatments for dogs. Many of these flea and tick medications also treat lice, mites, intestinal ...

But in aquaculture, fish are kept at unnaturally high densities, so the parasites will exploit that, and their lives become easy. 'Much like with humans, high densities mean it is easier for diseases ...

Many copepod species have independently adapted to a parasitic way of life using a wide range of animals as hosts. How patterns of new host use develop in copepods is largely unknown. We are studying ...