FDA to pull common but ineffective cold medicine from market
The FDA says oral phenylephrine, used in many over-the-counter cough and cold medicines, "is not effective as a nasal ...
Ineffective cough syrup ingredient phenylephrine should be axed, FDA says
A panel recently said it found evidence that phenylephrine, used in many popular medicines, did not aid with nasal congestion.
Ineffective cough syrup ingredient should be axed officially, FDA says
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has proposed removing oral phenylephrine, widely used in cold and cough syrups, as an active ingredient ... used in a variety of over-the-counter flu and cold ...
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Huge cache of cough syrups seized in Odisha, two held
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WA reports nearly 1,200 whooping cough cases so far this year
This year could be a decade-high for whooping cough cases in Washington state, according to numbers by the state Department ...
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Patients With Chronic Cough Report Relief With Semen Strychni
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4-year-old dies from cough syrup: Supreme Court backs mother
In January 2015, a four-year-old died in Kritzendorf (Lower Austria) after taking a prescribed cough syrup that was approved ...
FDA proposes pulling ineffective cold medicine from shelves
When you’re feeling under the weather, you likely grab your go-to cough and cold medicine. But are all the ingredients ...
FDA proposes ending use of popular decongestant in cold medicines
The US Food and Drug Administration has proposed to remove oral phenylephrine, widely used in cold and cough syrups.
Whooping cough cases surge 5x from last year. Experts explain the rise
The United States is experiencing a significant surge in whooping cough cases, reaching levels five times higher than the ...
University of Cincinnati reports whooping cough outbreak
There is a whooping cough outbreak at the University of Cincinnati, according to the Academy of Medicine of Cincinnati.