Ivermectin is primarily used in dogs for the prevention and treatment of heartworm disease. The parasitic worm Dirofilaria immitis, living in the heart and pulmonary arteries of dogs, causes this ...

Q: "I bought pour-on ivermectin by mistake. Am I able to give this orally to my dog? He is a German Shorthaired Pointer and weighs about 60 lbs. Thanks for your help." —Bill A: No, please do not give ...

MARMADUKE, Ark. (KAIT) - Ivermectin paste sales are on the rise at farm supply stores because some people think it can cure COVID-19. The paste used to treat worms in animals can be very harmful to ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) - Doctors, Pharmacists and the FDA all agree: humans should not use drugs intended for livestock. Still, some people are using animal deworming medicine in an attempt to treat ...

Health officials warned against using a drug called ivermectin for unapproved use as a medicine to prevent or treat COVID-19. The drug, which has been approved only as an anti-parasitic treatment for ...

The Nobel Prize in medicine in 2015 went to two scientists whose experiments on a type of bacteria and subsequent modifications produced a compound that led to “a new class of drugs with extraordinary ...

(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 ...

Traditional cancer therapies, which include radiation, surgery to remove most of the tumor, and chemotherapy to kill any rapidly growing cells, are sometimes effective but are both expensive and may ...

Ivermectin isn't the first medicine that has garnered the hopes of curious or vaccine-hesitant people as a potential treatment for COVID-19, but it's the one drawing potential patients to farm supply ...