E xposure to insecticides lindane and DDT can cause cancer, according to findings released by the World Health Organization (WHO) on Tuesday.. WHO’s International Agency for Research on Cancer ...

Q. My 10-year-old just brought lice home from a friend’s house and gave it to her five brothers and sisters and myself. We have always used Lindane, but the doctor said to use Permethrin instead.

Lindane is a chlorinated pesticide, much like DDT and similar compounds that were outlawed in most of the world in the 1970s; it is already banned in 52 countries.

The insecticide lindane, once widely used in agriculture and to treat human lice and scabies, causes cancer and has been specifically linked to non-Hodgkin lymphoma, the World Health Organization ...

The insecticide lindane causes cancer in humans, says the World Health Organization after conducting a review. A specialist panel found sufficient evidence to link the chemical, already banned in ...

WHO\'s finding that that pesticide Lindane can cause cancer is a warning to the Indian consumers who may be still using anti-lice shampoo with Lindane content, experts warn.

I read with personal interest Eric Wooltorton's article on lindane,[1][1] having a few years ago shared a half dozen daily baths with two lousy dogs and lindane shampoo. Inadequately labelled animal ...

(Beyond Pesticides, December 18, 2007) According to a study published December 11, 2007 in the online edition of Environmental Health Perspectives, banning lindane is a viable solution to protecting ...

For many years two companies located in Bizkaia, Bilbao Chemicals (Barakaldo 1947-1987) and Nexana (Erandio 1952-1982), had been manufacturing lindane and dumping it into the environment with no ...

Review the side-effects of Lindane as documented in medical literature. The term "side effects" refers to unintended effects that can occur as a result of taking the medication.

To be sure, lindane is not prohibited in India, and is allowed to be sold as lotion and shampoo for human use. With a domestic production capacity of 1,300 tonnes per annum, India is a major ...