Australian sea lions—a national government conservation priority species—have new hope for survival, thanks to a successful University of Sydney trial of ivermectin to treat hookworm infection.

Australian medical practitioners can now prescribe ivermectin to patients under new rules confirmed by the nation’s therapeutic goods authority. The Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA) announced on ...

Australia’s medicine and therapeutics regulator, the Therapeutic Goods Administration (TGA), has introduced new restrictions on the prescribing of ivermectin for COVID-19 and other off-label use. The ...

A claim on social media that Australian hospitals are treating vaccinated COVID-19 patients with anti-parasitic drug ivermectin is false, a spokesperson for the country’s therapeutic regulatory agency ...

An Australian man who tested positive for COVID-19 was reportedly hospitalized after he overdosed on a variety of “magic cures” — including ivermectin, an antiparasitic drug that has prompted federal ...

Recent research led to the anti-parasitic being discussed as a potential treatment, but experts say more research is currently needed. Ivermectin is a broad-spectrum anti-parasitic drug that can be ...

Ivermectin is an effective treatment for hookworm in the endangered Australian sea lion, University of Sydney research has found. Hookworm infection contributes to up to 40 per cent of pup deaths. In ...