Previous Post: Plants Previously Thought to Be ‘Stable’ Found to Be Responding to Climate Change nbsp
FDA Asked to Nix Head Lice Treatment
MedPageToday – Congressman Edward Markey (D-Mass.) has called on the FDA to ban the pesticide lindane as a treatment for head lice in children. Lindane is sold as Kwell shampoo and its generic versions. In a letter to FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg, Markey pointed out that the EPA banned the pesticide — which has been linked with side effects from skin irritations to seizures — from agricultural use in 2006. Read article
Tags: children maternity, disease medicine, pollution toxins
Related posts:
Ayalon: “We will not allow UN committee members into the country”
Author ReShonda Tate Billingsley dishes out tough love to daughter, 12, over photos with alcohol on ...
Two-thirds of voters want an EU referendum
Jupiter, 2 of its moons and a sun-grazing Comet
I fell for cocaine honeytrap, claims British physicist in Argentine jail
Libya’s ‘non state’: Tribal war claims 70 lives