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 ...

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 ...

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 ...