With tick season ramping up again this spring, it’s time to marshall your tools for keeping biting, disease-causing bugs at bay. Using bug spray is one important strategy, as is keeping your yard ...

A randomised trial shows that 5% permethrin cream is more effective than oral ivermectin for the treatment of classic scabies ...

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Outdoor enthusiasts: Here's a bit of good tick-fighting news just in time for Memorial Day weekend and the unofficial start of summer. A new U.S. government study confirms that insecticide-treated ...

Wearing clothing treated with permethrin is one of several strategies recommended by public health experts to prevent bites from ticks and mosquitoes. But—at least when it comes to protection against ...

March 8, 2012 — Permethrin may be slightly more effective than ivermectin in the treatment of scabies. In a study involving 272 patients, a single dose of ivermectin provided a cure rate of 85.9% at 2 ...

Ticks are gross. Anyone who's ever had to peel one off themself, a loved one, or, say, frantically try to extract one from a dog while watching a YouTube video about how to extract a tick from a dog ...

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Public health experts warn that tick populations are on the rise, meaning your chances of getting Lyme Disease have increased. A new study says clothes treated with permethrin makes it hard for ticks ...

Permethrin-treated clothing, first developed by the military a few decades ago, has been available to consumers since 2003, and there are a few ways to use it. • You can buy pretreated clothing from ...

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