Pricey Lice Treatment Revealed As Repackaged Face Wash
POSTED: 3:42 am PST December 5, 2005
CHICAGO -- It turns out an experimental head lice treatment that cost $285 really was just a skin cleanser that sells in drugstores for $10.
Dr. Dale Pearlman of Menlo Park, Calif., got a lot of publicity last year when the journal Pediatrics published his study of a treatment for lice that he called Nuvo lotion.
But in a letter to the editor for release Monday in December's Pediatrics, Pearlman said the treatment "was actually Cetaphil cleanser."