(PhysOrg.com) -- A new study on the impacts of lice on wild salmon published today by an independent team of academic researchers in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) confirmed what many previous and unbiased studies have also shown, namely, that lice on farmed salmon can multiply ...

Zippity Doo's™, the fast-growing line of head lice-preventive hair care products for children, is now available in Canada at Shoppers Drug Mart, the country's only nationwide drugstore chain. Lice do not take a summer break, so moms and dads should pack a peace of mind before their kids go off ...

Topaz Pharmaceuticals Inc., a privately held specialty pharmaceutical company, announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) accepted for filing the New Drug Application (NDA) for the use of ivermectin topical cream as a treatment for head lice infestations in children and adults. "This filing represents the ...

Topaz Pharmaceuticals Inc., a privately held specialty pharmaceutical company, today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) accepted for filing the New Drug Application (NDA) for the use of ivermectin topical cream as a treatment for head lice infestations in children and adults.

Spanish researchers from the University of Leon (Nicols Prez Hidalgo and M. Pilar Mier Durante) have discovered the plant lice Schizaphis piricola ( Matsumura ) in Madrid, Spain from a photography displayed on a social network platform: "Biodiversidad Virtual" ( http://www.biodiversidadvirtual.org/ ) (ngel Umaran). The results have been ...

Venture-backed pharmaceutical company Hatchtech Pty Ltd has enrolled the first subjects for its Phase 2b clinical study to confirm the efficacy of its novel head lice treatment DeOvo™. This Phase 2b trial will evaluate the efficacy, safety and tolerability of two dose levels of a single application of DeOvo compared ...

University of Maine researchers have published a paper in which they demonstrate that the blue mussel can eat larvae of the sea louse, a parasitic pest that has recently made a comeback on fish farms, decimating populations of farmed finfish.

Pernix™ Therapeutics Holdings, Inc. (NYSE Amex: PTX) and ParaPRO, LLC announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved Natroba™ (spinosad) Topical Suspension, 0.9% to eliminate head lice (pediculosis capitis). Natroba™ received approval as a prescription medication and is indicated for the topical treatment of head lice ...

A new University of Florida study following the evolution of lice shows modern humans started wearing clothes about 170,000 years ago, a technology which enabled them to successfully migrate out of Africa. Principal investigator David Reed, associate curator of mammals at the Florida Museum of Natural History on the UF ...

(PhysOrg.com) -- A new University of Florida study following the evolution of lice shows modern humans started wearing clothes about 170,000 years ago, a technology which enabled them to successfully migrate out of Africa.

GAINESVILLE, Fla. A new University of Florida study following the evolution of lice shows modern humans started wearing clothes about 170,000 years ago, a technology which enabled them to successfully migrate out of Africa. Principal investigator David Reed, associate curator of mammals at the Florida ...

A new UC Davis study contradicts earlier reports that salmon farms were responsible for the 2002 population crash of wild pink salmon in the Broughton Archipelago of western Canada.