ParaPRO is a Specialty Pharmaceutical Company created in 2002 to acquire, develop, and commercialize proprietary products in focused high potential markets. Our first product, a promising new medicine for the treatment of head lice, is under review by the FDA.
Included are quotes from ParaPRO president Bill Culpepper and technology advisory board members John Clark and Richard Pollack. For a link to the March 2, 2008 article click here:
ParaPRO is developing a crème rinse containing a family friendly formulation that is lethal to head lice. The active ingredient, Spinosad, is derived from a naturally occurring soil organism and was awarded the Presidential Green Chemistry Challenge award to recognize its innovation in cleaner and smarter chemistry.
Information on Spinosad..
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Video, pictures and anonymous e-mail tool helps parents, health care professionals with sensitive issue
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Free Head Lice Educational Toolkit available at www.dritchy.com includes a Head Lice Educational Poster, Head Lice Pictures, an editable School Nurse Head Lice Notification Letter and “Is It Head Lice?” presentation with kid-friendly instruction to reduce the stigma of a head lice infestation.
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ParaPRO is conducting a survey with healthcare professionals and parents of children with head lice from around the country to determine how current prescription and over the counter therapy is working to control head lice. Please take this short survey and receive a free copy of “Yikes-Lice!” by Donna Caffey and Patrick Girouard (Paperback - Mar 2002) by mail.
Funds will be used to help finance Phase 3 investigational clinical trials for promising head lice product
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Pediculicides that are not reliably ovicidal (pyrethroids and lindane) require 2 to 3 treatment cycles to eradicate lice. Ovicidal therapies (malathion) require 1 to 2 treatments. Treatment with an agent to which there is genetic resistance is unproductive. In the United States, lice have become increasingly resistant to pyrethroids and lindane but not to malathion.
PEDIATRICS Vol. 119 No. 5 May 2007, pp. 965-974 (doi:10.1542/peds.2006-3087)
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