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£5m boost for firm’s treatment against head lice

A Scottish biotechnology pioneer hopes to take the hassle out of treating head lice after licensing its know-how to the maker of some of the country’s best known medicines.

Borders-based Ectopharma’s technology will be used by Thornton & Ross to add a new generation of products to tackle head lice to its stable of remedies.

This includes Settlers-branded tablets for indigestion and Covonia cough medicine.