Welcome to ParaPRO
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.

Article in Boston Globe Sunday Magazine discusses head lice and ParaPRO.
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:

NatrOVA™ – a crème rinse containing Spinosad
A promising new medicine
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..

Current ParaPRO News!

New Study in the Journal Pediatrics® Reports Results Showing Superior Efficacy of Spinosad Head Lice Treatment as Compared to Permethrin
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ParaPRO Launches MyHeadLiceTreatment.com – A Comprehensive Head Lice Web Portal
Video, pictures and anonymous e-mail tool helps parents, health care professionals with sensitive issue
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ParaPRO introduces Dr. Itchy™ to help school nurses and parents teach students about head lice.
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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Does existing head lice therapy work? Please let us know.
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.

ParaPRO LLC awarded $2.1 Million Grant from State of Indiana
Funds will be used to help finance Phase 3 investigational clinical trials for promising head lice product
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John Clark (UMASS) and Richard Pollack (Harvard School of Public Health) join ParaPRO Technology Advisory Board, May 2007
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David Bedich Joins ParaPRO from TOMedica Solutions as Director of Trade Commercialization and Reimbursement
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Kerry Mettert Joins ParaPRO as Director of Quality Assurance and Regulatory Affairs
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Current Head Lice News
Therapy for Head Lice Based on Life Cycle, Resistance, and Safety Considerations
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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American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) policy on treating head lice
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Current FDA guidance on Lindane  (May 2007)
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