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  • Merck's Stromectol wipes out hard-to-treat lice, study finds (16 Mar 2010 01:13)

    ... treatments to prevent resistance to the drug. Stromectol is used to treat the diseases river blindness, one of the leading causes of preventable blindness, and elephantiasis, or lymphatic filariasis, which ...

  • Drug-Resistant Lice Respond Better to Ivermectin (11 Mar 2010 04:30)

    ... the lotions. The drug is currently used in Africa and Latin America to prevent river blindness (onchocerciasis), which is caused by a nematode infection. Chosidow and colleagues conducted a randomized, controlled ...

  • The Dohmen Company Foundation Donates $500,000 to Map International (12 Mar 2010 00:12)

    ... are 14 NTDs recognized by United Nations and include leprosy, Guinea worm, Chagas Disease, river blindness and Buruli Ulcer. These diseases are considered neglected because they dont occur in developed ...

  • The Dohmen Company Foundation Donates $500,000 to Map International (BIZ) (12 Mar 2010 00:46)

    ... combined. There are 14 NTDs recognized by and include leprosy, Guinea worm, Chagas Disease, river blindness and Buruli Ulcer. These diseases are considered neglected because they don't occur in developed ...

  • In study, oral drug was superior to lotion in tough head-lice cases (12 Mar 2010 09:19)

    ... Journal of Medicine, compared ivermectin - an anti-parasitic drug used for human cases of river blindness and for animal parasites - with a lotion containing the insecticide malathion. Ivermectin is ...

  • Long-term use of osteoporosis drugs questioned (11 Mar 2010 02:51)

    ... Journal of Medicine, compared ivermectin — an antiparasitic drug used for human cases of river blindness and for animal parasites — with a lotion containing the insecticide malathion. Ivermectin is ...

  • Pill may be more effective than lotion in treating head lice, study says (11 Mar 2010 06:37)

    ... to the scalp. compared ivermectin -- an anti-parasitic drug used for human cases of river blindness and for animal parasites -- with a lotion containing the insecticide malathion. Ivermectin is ...

  • Pill more effective for severe head lice, study finds (11 Mar 2010 13:02)

    ... prescription lotion. , compared ivermectin - an anti-parasitic drug used for human cases of river blindness and for animal parasites - with a lotion containing the insecticide malathion. Ivermectin is ...

  • Tourist in Africa Finds White Worms in Her Eyes (11 Mar 2010 15:32)

    ... Loa loa larvae. An area of tremendous concern regarding loiasis is its co-endemicity with onchocerciasis in certain areas of west and central Africa, as mass ivermectin treatment of onchocerciasis ...

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