Lice

  • Expert Offers Advice on Dealing with Lice
    They’re small, creepy and suck your blood. Every parent dreads it, but it’s inevitable—the “lice letter.” Though a lice infestation is about as common as a cold, trying to rid your life of them can be as much of a head-scratcher as those disgusting bugs themselves. “I had ...More
    3 weeks ago
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  • Lice Myths Debunked by Loyola Expert
    Autumn brings tales of scary delight but none terrifies parents so much as the note home from school that a case of lice has been detected. "While the make-believe vampires are prowling for candy, head lice are looking for a real blood meal," says Dr. Andrew Bonwit, a ...More
    October 13, 2011
    Posted in News
  • FDA Approves Head Lice Treatment for Children and Adults
    The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) today approved Natroba (spinosad) Topical Suspension 0.9% for the treatment of head lice infestation in patients ages 4 years and older. Head lice are parasitic insects found on people’s head, eyebrows, and eyelashes. They feed on ...More
    January 21, 2011
    Posted in News
  • An End to Lice: The Effectiveness of a New Oral Treatment Demonstrated
    French medical researchers from the Henri Mondor Hospital and Avicenne Hospital (AP-HP) have recently demonstrated the effectiveness of a new molecule in the fight against lice. Faced with the emergence of increasing resistance to conventional treatments by these parasites, ...More
    March 11, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Bedbugs, Scabies and Head Lice Infestations: What You Should Know
    If simply the thought of bedbugs, scabies and head lice makes you feel a little itchy, imagine how those affected by these common infestations feel when they learn what has been creeping around them and causing symptoms such as intense itching, red bite marks or irritated ...More
    March 5, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Study Shows that Suffocating Head Lice Works in New Treatment
    A new non-neurotoxic treatment for head lice has been found to have an average of 91.2 percent treatment success rate after one week, and to be safe in humans from six months of age and up. This is the finding of a study published today in Pediatric Dermatology.Benzyl ...More
    February 24, 2010
    Posted in News
  • Campaign to Educate Parents, Community About Head Lice
    The National Association of School Nurses (NASN) announced today the kickoff of S.C.R.A.T.C.H. (School and Community Resources to Avoid and Take Control of Head Lice), a campaign to educate school nurses, students, parents and the general public about the prevention and ...More
    September 14, 2009
    Posted in News
  • FDA Approves Phase I Clinical Trial of New Head Lice Treatment
    PHILADELPHIA -- Topaz Pharmaceuticals LLC, a pharmaceutical company, announces that the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an investigational new drug application; allowing Topaz to begin clinical trials of the company’s topical solution for the treatment of ...More
    July 12, 2007
    Posted in News
  • The LouseBuster Kills: Hot, Dry Air Device Eradicates Lice
    A prototype of the LouseBuster developed by University of Utah researchers. A study in the November issue of the journal Pediatrics shows the LouseBuster effectively eradicates infestations of head lice with a single 30-minute treatment that does not require chemicals but ...More
    November 6, 2006
    Posted in News
  • Four Out of Five Head Lice Resistant to Common Treatment
    Four out of five head lice are resistant to a common treatment used to eradicate them, finds a study of Welsh schoolchildren, published in the Archives of Disease in Childhood. The most common types of treatment for head lice in the UK are organophosphates (malathion) and ...More
    June 14, 2006
    Posted in News
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