Dec. 9, 2002 — The most commonly used pediculicide for lice is permethrin 1% cream (PLT), now available over the counter. At its introduction, it was 97% effective, but a study in the November issue ...

Malaria remains a major cause of childhood death in sub-Saharan Africa. We leveraged the traditional practice of mothers carrying children on their backs in cloth wraps to assess whether treating the ...

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with Ugandan and international collaborators, report that permethrin-treated baby wraps reduced clinical malaria cases in young children ...

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