Five years after the pandemic began, interest in the anti-parasitic drug is rising again as right-wing influencers promote it — and spread misinformation about it. By Richard Fausset Joe Grinsteiner ...

Ivermectin's reputation keeps growing as a kind of cure-all, even for cancer — despite evidence it doesn't work.

People are going on social media to share their belief that this anti-parasitic medication can cure cancer. Learn what researchers have discovered about the drug. Claims that ivermectin can cure ...

Social media posts have promoted the anti-parasitic drug for cancer and Covid. That has doctors alarmed. By Dani Blum At least once a week, someone asks Dr. Skyler Johnson if ivermectin can treat ...

A handful of states have passed legislation allowing ivermectin to be sold and purchased over-the-counter (OTC) -- and other state legislatures have their sights set on doing the same. During the ...

Ivermectin is effective in treating animals and humans with intestinal worms and other parasites, but it shows no worth in treating other conditions, including viruses. Why are more politicians ...

Ivermectin tablets are arranged. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration warned Americans against taking ivermectin, a drug usually used on animals, as a treatment or prevention for Covid-19.

While ivermectin can legally be sold as an over-the-counter drug beginning on Aug. 5, whether it will actually be available any time soon is a different matter. Early next month, a new state law will ...

The Texas House on Wednesday passed a bill that would make ivermectin — a drug used mostly in this country to treat livestock for parasites — available to Texans without a prescription. The latest ...

Claims that ivermectin can cure cancer are not supported by findings from research trials involving humans. Most studies on ivermectin and cancer are still preliminary and are investigating the effect ...