In this edition of The People’s Pharmacy, Joe and Teresa Graedon also hear from a reader with a question about using ivermectin to treat scabies.

Human scabies is a debilitating skin disease caused by Sarcoptes scabei, known by several names such as "itch mite." At any given time, the worldwide burden of disease is about 300,000,000 people.

While scabies does not kill many people, it is an unpleasant infection that causes significant impact on quality of life.

Limited effective treatments, coupled with recent observations of emerging drug resistance to oral ivermectin and 5% permethrin, raise concerns regarding the future control of scabies, especially ...

Permethrin five percent cream is the most common medicine used to treat scabies. It’s applied head to toe the first dose and ...

This is what doctors are saying as cases of scabies are rising. From the year to April, there were 3,689 confirmed hospital ...

The Express spoke to Dr Deborah Lee about the signs to look out for when it comes to scabies and where they are most commonly ...

Dr Deborah Lee has discussed the signs to look out for when it comes to scabies and where they are most commonly found on the ...

Scabies is an itchy skin infection that sees outbreaks across the world.Author Michael Head Senior Research Fellow in Global ...