Many children head back to school this week amid growing concern about super lice, or populations of the small parasitic bugs that have mutated and are now resistant to traditional over-the-counter ...

Farmers find another tool under pressure from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with pyrethroids’ draft environmental risk assessment and associated comment period ending March 31. The outcome ...

A new study from The University of Toledo suggests early exposure to a common class of insecticides called pyrethroids may increase the risk of autism and other developmental disorders, even at levels ...

Head lice are a giant nuisance -- as many as 12 million American school children between the ages of 3 and 11 get them each year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And to ...

Most of us think we’re protecting ourselves from noxious chemicals with half-superstitious gestures: filtering the water we drink a pitcher at a time, or confining ourselves to the organic aisles of ...

Environmental exposure to pyrethroid insecticides was associated with an increased risk for all-cause and cardiovascular disease mortality in an observational study of a nationally representative ...

Q: I have a nine-pound cat named Beauty and a five-pound Chihuahua named Beast. Is it OK for me to apply half of Beast's monthly flea and tick preventive to his skin and the other half to Beauty's ...

(Beyond Pesticides, May 5, 2023) Low level exposure to pyrethroid insecticides found in common pesticide brands like RAID and ORTHO result in neurodevelopmental damage to laboratory animals, ...

The buzz from this week’s American Chemical Society (ACS) meeting in Boston is a report that lice in at least 25 states have become resistant to the most commonly used treatment, pyrethroids.

Dublin, Sept. 23, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- The "Pyrethroids - Global Market Trajectory & Analytics" report has been added to ResearchAndMarkets.com's offering. The publisher brings years of research ...

Growers should avoid spraying insecticide to control cabbage stem flea beetle larvae in oilseed rape to reduce the risk of killing natural predators and fuelling insecticide resistance. Adult beetles ...

(Beyond Pesticides, March 10, 2010) A study investigating the sublethal effects of pyrethroids, bifenthrin and deltamethrin on honeybees finds that the chemicals significantly impair the pollinators’ ...