Usually poison control centers only receive a handful of calls a month related to ivermectin, a livestock dewormer that can cause vomiting, seizures and even deaths. But there has been a surge. A ...

HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) -- The U.S. Federal Drug Administration is sending out a major warning about a parasite treatment often used in animals after misinformation has prompted people to take it to ...

BOISE, Idaho — A national uptick in people using horse dewormer medicine to treat COVID-19 has medial officials concerned over the unsafe practice. The Food and Drug Administration notes that while ...

JACKSON, Miss. -- Mississippi's poison control center has seen an increase in calls of people taking ivermectin, including versions of the deworming drug intended for livestock, to treat or prevent ...

(Editor's note: A reference to one of the Facebook posts by Delaware County health officer Donna Wilkins included in the original version of this article has been removed because it was not related to ...

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Texas has seen an uptick in calls to Poison Control for exposure to ivermectin, the livestock dewormer the U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently issued a warning about. People ...

The drug ivermectin is more than a “horse dewormer.” Its discovery for use in treating parasitic diseases in humans won a Nobel Prize. But COVID-19 is not a parasitic disease; it’s a viral disease.

Comedian, commentator and podcast host Joe Rogan has said he has taken the animal dewormer ivermectin to treat coronavirus, despite official warnings against using it. Rogan announced on an Instagram ...

In November 2020, a pre-print study touting the safety and efficacy of an anti-parasitic drug called Ivermectin was published on the Research Square website, a platform where scientific studies are ...