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 ...

Doctors, pharmacists, the federal government and several healthcare organizations warn against using ivermectin, a parasite drug commonly used on animals, as a treatment for COVID-19. "It's a ...

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

An Aug. 12 Facebook post (direct link, archive link) indicates there's news about ivermectin, an anti-parasitic drug that experts have long said is ineffective as a COVID-19 treatment. “Remember the ...

Thankfully, mass administration programs launched in the late 1980s, which distribute ivermectin to at-risk populations ...